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The prolonged United States-led war against terrorism has left a large number of people disabled in Pakistan, compelling the government to institute a rehabilitation plan that will include imparting vocational skills.

Three years ago, thousands of Icelanders were standing outside Iceland's parliament building chanting "incompetent government" in an attempt to bring down the conservative government that had been seen as responsible for the collapse of the country's banking system.

After a hearing that lasted more than 11 hours, a Guatemalan court ordered the trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-1983), who could face up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Summary: Here is an Action Plan for you to help to defeat the western belligerent loses-lose strategy and promote the peaceful win-win strategy; the aim is to raise awareness and mobilise the public, and bring a motion against sanctions and war on Iran in the House of Commons to defeat the cu ...

Summary: A national call went out just a week ago for a National Day of Action to resist U.S. war against Iran. Will the Occupy movement be the leading voice saying "No Iran War!" ? source: Joe Scarry Blogread more

Summary: Pepe Escobar Soudani expresses the views of the whole Tehran establishment when he says that "the structure of their [Europe's] refineries is compatible with Iran's oil", and so Europeans have no alternative as replacement; the embargo "will cause an increase in oil prices, and the E ...

Summary: Berlin, Jan 23, IRNA -- Head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano has openly acknowledged to German lawmakers there was no proof whatsoever that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program, said an opposition legislator of The Left party Monday. source: IRNAr ...

Summary: WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Wednesday that global crude prices could rise as much as 30 per cent if Iran halts oil exports as a result of United States (US) and European Union (EU) sanctions. source: Reutersread more

The Daily Galaxy

"We have cracked open the door to what is possible for life elsewhere in the universe," Felisa Wolfe-Simon of the NASA Astrobiology Institute and U.S. Geological Survey, who led the NASA Mono Lake study. Rosie Redfield of the University of...

This is the most colossal known smash-up observed in the universe. This awesome bundle of galaxies, nicknamed Pandora's cluster, turns out to be the result of a violent mashup between at least four separate galaxy clusters that occured over hundreds...

A monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun is feeding off gas, dust and a ring of stars at the centre of Galaxy NGC-1097 50 million light-years away. The star-ringed black hole forms the eye of...

Two years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's...

MIT's research on an ancient lunar rock suggests that the moon once harbored a long-lived dynamo — a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a strong magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago. The findings, published today in Science,...

Natural News

Eating bilberries will reduce intestinal inflammation and alleviate the effects of colitis. These are the results of the experiments conducted by a team of scientists led by Professor Gerhard Rogler from University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. Bilberries, or huckleberries...

The state of the Union is on our minds. But, in all fairness, it has been for the past few years. It's painfully too easy to wonder if we are turning into a hostile, bellicose society. The good old days of sitting on Grandpa's porch and idly churning ice cream seem a...

Feline stomatitis is a very common and unpleasant malady for any self respecting cat to have. It is a result of the modern way of feline health care. Stomatitis is the inflammation of the mouth. Symptoms include redness and swelling of any surface. It is painful for...

(NaturalNews)Breastfeeding is a special bonding experience for mother and child. Scientists at Warwick University studying the psychological effects of breastfeeding have affirmed that an infant's suckling motion on the nipple releases mass doses of oxytocin, the hormone responsible...

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated 44.3 million Americans, ages 18 and older, suffer from a mental disorder. Depression, included in this number, is reaching epidemic proportions. While the media continues to report on the potentially...

Threat Level

In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make more than $ ...

Internet scorn for Twitter's announcement that it would censor tweets was swift and unforgiving. But even free-speech and other experts were divided on the service's move that it might censor tweets if required by law in "countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expre ...

Oh, Glenn Beck. It seems that Beck has put in an application to join Anonymous. But mere words fail. The only thing you can say about about this video is WAT? WTF does this even mean? Our heads are hurting, here at Wired. Blogs are cogitating about this move by Beck and the possible hellfile [...]

Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company’s founder, a self-styled “Dr. Evil” of file sharing. Kim Dotcom’s opulent digs, high-end cars, fondness for models and other Bond-villain-esque behaviors have been splashed across websites and have ...

PERRspectives : Blog

When it comes to paying his taxes, Mitt Romney may not have broken the rules; he just plays by a different set of them. His sub-15 percent effective tax rate revealed that Romney used his carried interest exemption, not-so-blind trusts, Cayman Islands investments and Swiss Bank accounts to his ...

The least surprising element to Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was the Republican talking point that the President's policies have "made our economy worse." Speaker John Boehner regurgitated that point five times during his pre-buttal on Fox News Sunday before concluding last ni ...

On Monday, goaltender Tim Thomas of the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins became just the latest high profile athlete to snub President Obama by refusing to attend a White House ceremony honoring his team. Nevertheless, Thomas' insult to the presidency is unique. After all, Thomas is the firs ...

"Where's the beef?" With that sound bite, Walter Mondale deflated the insurgent bid of the "candidate of new ideas" Gary Hart for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination.* Twenty-eight years later, rising Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich may be about to have his own "where's th ...

Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary by playing the victim card. Now, Mitt Romney hopes to win the Republican nomination by doing the same thing. But while Gingrich's ploy of portraying himself as the latest conservative target of a liberal "elite" media assault is always a winner with ...

At VICE’s Motherboard blog, I’m interviewed by Abraham Riesman about space travel and the somewhat confused recent claims of Speaker Gingrich. Well, let’s start with the “51st State” bit that’s being bandied about. Speaker Gingrich knows as well as the next political mammal that the ...

Awesome picture of the day comes to us from Poland: higher rez here. WTF Video of today comes to us from… (go on, watch it first) GLENN BECK, crypto-revolutionary. Over on WIRED, Quinn Norton makes the case for Mr Beck being Anon’s figurehead. As my buddy @Interdome said the other da ...

TruthOut

The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...

In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...

About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

OK, this is the last cute or funny animal video of the weekend,… I think. This one is truly adorable. My reaction didn’t really out-do Jess Zimmerman’s, though, and I can’t trump her words, so here’s what she had to say about the video: “I am not ashamed to ad ...

Wow, Gingrich’s latest promise, that he would establish a permanent American base on the moon by the end of his second (no assumptions there) term as president is… um,.. insane. The really funny part* is at the end, when Stewart notes that he’s probably come up with this plan b ...

Here’s another adorable animal friendship for your weekend pleasure. This one, however, was not so easily explained and also came with serious concerns. Additionally, the story evolves in quite an interesting way at the end, when it becomes clear that it wasn’t only this one particul ...

This is absolutely, insanely hilarious… and adorable. Not only that, I think it really shows the tremendous feeling of empowerment that comes from riding a bike… and not just the first time! Little Kid Gives Epic Speech After First Bike Ride – Amazing videos are here Kid&#821 ...

by Rob Painting of Skeptical Science As a recent SkS post by Dana Nuccitelli has pointed out global warming hasn’t stopped, despite a recent lull in global surface temperatures. The oceans, which are the main heat sink for global warming, have scarcely skipped a beat in soaking up heat. Th ...

Axis of Logic

TEHRAN: Iran's parliament is to discuss a bill on Sunday that seeks to halt its oil exports to the EU. The bill calls for a ban of oil exports to the EU as early as next week, Hossein Ebrahimi, deputy head of Majlis (parliament) national security and foreign policy committee,...

A fire at a drug rehabilitation centre in the Peruvian capital Lima has killed at least 26 people, officials say. Another 10 people were injured at the Christ Is Love centre, which used biblical teachings to treat addicts. Firefighters said the doors were locked, trapping patients insi ...

President Chavez presented his annual report on activities carried out in 2011 and his program for 2012 to the Venezuelan Parliament. After thoroughly carrying out the formalities required by this important activity, he addressed the official state authorities, members of parliament from all par ...

Anwar Ibrahim is an unusual man in two respects. One is that the former deputy prime minister of Malaysia is probably the only senior politician in the world to have been charged with sodomy (which is a crime in Malaysia). Not only that: he was charged with sodomy twice, in...

The idea of economic conversion, of retooling and retraining pieces of the military industrial complex to build what other wealthy nations have (infrastructure, energy, education, etc) converged with the end of the Cold War two decades back. It was time for a peace dividend as well as a little s ...

They Gave Us a Republic

By @BGinKC The Centers for Disease Control has completed and released the results of a massive new study of gang violence, conducted by analyzing data collected in five cities -- Long Beach, Oakland and Los Angeles in California, Oklahoma City and Newark, N.J. In one study, they manage to debunk ...

By @KYYellowDog From Down with Tyranny: Well, you say that I'm an outlaw, You say that I'm a thief. Here's a Christmas dinner For the families on relief. Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. An ...

By @KYYellowDog This isn't about me. We weren't sent here to wage perpetual political campaigns against each other. We were sent here to serve the American people. And they deserve better than gridlock and games. One senator gumming up the works for the whole country is certain ...

By @BGinKC Without a doubt, one of the absolute best investigative journalists plying the trade today is Adrian Chen of the online news outlet Gawker.com. He has been relentless in exposing the dark and tawdry side of the internet, and now he's exposing the violent, dangerous and criminal elemen ...

By BG&YD Second Mayor calls @GovBrewer Otis the Drunk a prevaricator. "Out of the three officials who met President Obama on an airport tarmac near Phoenix earlier this week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is now the only one who has characterized the president as anything other than cordial. ... I ...

Care 2

DUBAI //Collectors are bypassing regulations designed to protect wild animals such as lions and tigers, says a veterinarian who specialises in treating exotic pets. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of U. S. economic policy. Submitted by Michael Dewey to Business & ...

Big Oil wants to drill in the coastal plain and change this magical place forever. Take this historic opportunity to protect the wildlife and wilderness of the Arctic Refuge. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Anyone who has a close relative with Alzheimer's shares the same worry: Am I next? However, a growing body of research indicates that our lifestyles - particularly what we eat and whether we're obese - play a greater role than our genes in determining Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness ...

You Don't Have to be a Slave to Your Addictions Are drugs, alcohol or cigarettes ruling your life? Have you tried quitting only to pick back up again -- even though you really, really want to stop? A healthier life awaits you. You can do Submitted by Agnes N. to Health & Wellness |&n ...

No Quarter

Kudos to Joe Scarborough for a devastating firsthand account of why Newt Gingrich is unworthy of the Presidency. I encourage you to read the full piece, The Newt I Know. Scarborough recounts an incredible episode–the confrontation between eleven conservative Republican members of the House ...

What happened to almost six million Americans? There is a kool-aid drinking Obot, who writes under the name of PA, who is typical of the delusional that support Obama. He posted this challenge on my piece about Gingrich earlier today and I quote: Obama has done a heck of a job, particularly give ...

Are you a “conservative?” If so, help us out here and explain just what that is. Newt Gingrich is furiously trying to make the case that he is a Washington outsider and a true blue conservative. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, who has never served in Washington is being portrayed by Gingrich ...

Update: Ever notice that Mitt Romney is the only candidate who sings the national anthem, along with the performers? And — get this — Callista Gingrich, a music major who sings these days in her Washington, D.C. Catholic church, stood silent with a stern look, as if she was bored by ...

Futurismic

The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...

Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...

My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge. I also [...]Foll ...

Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...

Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...

Therapy News

When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...

One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...

November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...

Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...

Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

US election 2012: Environment versus energy Telegraph.co.uk It's just that powerful,” says McKinley Sumner of the mountain-top removal that is done less than a mile from his home in Perry County, Kentucky. Mr Sumner fought a battle with the coal company which is now mining the land around hi ...

City church will host benefit concert to fight mountaintop removal mining Elizabethton Star “Not 1 More Mountain” was launched in late 2011 in an effort to increase awareness of the very real and imminent threat from mountaintop removal mining, a particularly devastating and unrecoverable proces ...

HNN Huntingtonnews.net SEAC shows 'The Last Mountain' to raise MTR awareness amoungst students, community MU The Parthenon Students and community members watched the documentary about mountaintop removal around Coal River Mountain near Charleston on Thursday. Maria Gunnoe said she has be ...

EPA pushes to reduce Mingo mine's impacts Charleston Gazette The Obama administration has again questioned a huge mountaintop removal mine associated with the King Coal Highway, and is pressuring state regulators and CONSOL Energy to reduce the mine's potential impacts. US Environmental ...

Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus: NBC News Asks Romney Campaign to Remove Ad — 4:29 p.m. | Updated TAMPA, Fla. - NBC News is asking that the Romney campaign remove from its ads any references to material from the network in response to a new commercial that consists almost ...

David Dayen / Firedoglake: Schneiderman's RMBS Working Group: Resources, Jurisdiction and Will — Eric Schneiderman, co-chair of the newly titled “RMBS working group” investigating financial fraud, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night (the interview starts ...

China Dialogue

An incendiary Wall Street Journal article has accused Beijing of trying to dupe the world with a smokescreen carbon levy. The author is plain wrong, write Yang Mingche and Yang Fuqiang.The news that China may very soon introduce a carbon tax has caused a stir. Of the many articles to address the ...

The state remains unprepared for the pollution and protests its ambitious garbage-incineration plans could generate, writes Yu Dawei.Since early 2008, China has seen a frenzy of investment in controversial garbage-incineration plants. In the words of Zhang Yi, head of the Shanghai Environmental ...

As the need to reduce the amount of energy and materials used in manufacturing processes becomes more urgent, architects and engineers should look for inspiration in nature, writes Michael Pawlyn.At the start of the industrial revolution, people were scarce and resources were abundant. Today, th ...

Skyscrapers are costly to erect and permits are tough to get, so why do architects keep trying to go higher? Tall buildings have always been about ego, say Edwin Heathcote and Ed Hammond.Cass Gilbert, architect of New York’s early 20th-century Woolworth Building, called skyscrapers “ ...

High commodity prices are complicating aquifer protection in the San Luis Valley, which – like northern China – faces a groundwater crisis. Brett Walton reports. At an average altitude of 2,350 metres, Colorado’s San Luis Valley, in the western United States, is the n ...

Written by Jason Salzman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Reporters are having a real hard time sorting out Mitt Romney’s position on personhood. Here’s a quick and easy way for ...

Threat Level

In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make more than $ ...

Internet scorn for Twitter's announcement that it would censor tweets was swift and unforgiving. But even free-speech and other experts were divided on the service's move that it might censor tweets if required by law in "countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expre ...

Oh, Glenn Beck. It seems that Beck has put in an application to join Anonymous. But mere words fail. The only thing you can say about about this video is WAT? WTF does this even mean? Our heads are hurting, here at Wired. Blogs are cogitating about this move by Beck and the possible hellfile [...]

Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company’s founder, a self-styled “Dr. Evil” of file sharing. Kim Dotcom’s opulent digs, high-end cars, fondness for models and other Bond-villain-esque behaviors have been splashed across websites and have ...

Equality Trust

Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...

Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

PDA AMERICA

Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...

Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...

William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

Deborah Schoch, of the CHCF Center for Health Reporting, writing for the LA Times gave me some space in her story, “Salad industry on hunt for solution to tainted greens.” One of the biggest hurdles facing scientists now is how salad bagging works. Thousands upon thousands of salad ...

Hannaford’s was implicated in a 19-victim, 7-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that was likely the result of “high-risk practices;” so says the USDA’s FSIS. Hannaford’s stores did not keep grinding records that showed the source of all the trim ...

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is reporting multiple Campylobacter infection cases associated with consumption of raw (unpasteurized) milk from the Family Cow dairy store in Chambersburg, PA. DHMH, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, advises consumer ...

18th Street Deli Inc., a Hamtramck, Mich., establishment, is recalling approximately 118 pounds of julienne salad products with turkey, ham and hard-boiled eggs. The salads contain eggs that are the subject of an FDA recall due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of ...

AutoblogGreen

Filed under: Etc., Chevrolet At the Washington Auto Show today, Chevrolet introduced a sticker. Okay, the new Ecologic environmental labels that will be coming to all new Chevy vehicles - starting with the 2013 Sonic - is a lot more than just an adhesive piece of paper. Last year, the EPA re ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Electric The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is holding meetings that could put the hammer down on getting more zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) on the road - or so it seems at first glance. CARB, which always looks far down the road, is discussing ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric What a surprise. Today's Congressional hearing over the Chevrolet Volt fire and the resulting investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration turned out to be contentious. The hearing took pla ...

Torrance, CA is going to the front of the line. Honda has delivered its first Fit EV to the city government Friday as part of an EV demonstration program that will include an unspecified number of the little electric vehicles in tests before the consumer launch in limited markets (read: Calif ...

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury In between debuting the Smart for-us and SL on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show today, Mercedes-Benz thought it right to bring out two brown cars that are actually green: diesel and gasoline flavors of the E-Class hybrid. ...

Rafe's Radar

Apple is the most valuable U.S. company there is, and the most powerful and influential consumer electronics company by far. It is obscenely profitable. This amazing success is built on the backs of hundreds of thousands of factory workers, almost all of them in China, who assemble iPhones, ...

Camera Obscura

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections tells Democracy Now! it has transferred Mumia Abu-Jamal out of solitary confinement and into general population. The move comes seven weeks after Philadelphia prosecutor Seth Williams announced he would not pursue the death penalty against the imprisoned jo ...

Democracy Now! just returned from Park City, Utah, where we covered the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary track for the third year in a row. While there we spoke with Cara Mertes, who oversees the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and Fund. In this interview, she de ...

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-to-fail banks that have funded his campaigns ...

On Thursday, we’ll speak with Paul M. Barrett, author of "Glock: The Making of America’s Gun," which tells the story of the American gun market as reflected by an Austrian six-cylinder revolver, tracing how it has become a weapon of choice on both sides of the law, in the ...

On the first anniversary of the Jan. 25th protests in Tahrir Square, we’ll speak to Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous live from Cairo. We will also air an excerpt of the new HBO documentary, "In Tahrir Square," featuring Sharif. We’ll talk to the filmmak ...

Think Progress- By Scott Keyes and Travis Waldron on Jan 21, 2012 at 12:10 pm Two years ago today, the Supreme Court struck down longstanding restrictions on corporate money in American elections, paving the way for super PACs and major third party spending. Since January 21, 2009, the Citizen ...

Is This Land Made for You and Me – or for the Super-Rich? truth-out Thursday 12 January 2012 by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, ...

Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace truthout Sunday 25 December 2011 by: , When I heard the president speak to returning troops last week, my mind flashed back to an article I once wrote for our local newspaper. Each week, a different member of the local clergy would write a column, ...

Well, it’s anther Christmas in Hooland and “The Grinch” just can’t stand it. With copious amounts of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI “Christians United for Israel, Reverand John Hagee’s religious empire that has heavy ties ...

Solari

By Emily A Greek scientific study led by Adamantia Fragopoulou and Lukas Margaritis has demonstrated important protein changes in the brain of animals following whole body exposure to RF electromagnetic fields, similar to the kind of microwave radiation emitted from cell phones, portable phones ...

A transcript of Catherine’s January 19, 2012 interview of Lynne McTaggart is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Let me turn to our interview with Lynne McTaggart. As I said before, I interviewed Lynne earlier this week from London. She’s the author ...

Strategic initiatives to protect yourself from security breaches By Rick Holland Last week I did a webcast, Planning for Failure, which makes the assumption that if you haven’t been breached, it is inevitable, and you must be able to quickly detect and respond to incidents. An effective r ...

A transcript of the January 12, 2012 Precious Metals Market Report is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine: Okay. Well, let’s start just with the current market and then let’s head into 2011 and take a look at what happened last year. Franklin: Well, the cur ...

By Ryan Lizza – The New Yorker 23 Jan 12 In a piece this week on Barack Obama’s shift from idealism to pragmatism, I describe an important fifty-seven-page document from Lawrence Summers to President-elect Barack Obama dated December 15, 2008: Marked “Sensitive and Confidential,” the docum ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...

Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »

BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...

Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »

Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

Summary: Germany used it power over the European Monetary Union to institute a monetary policy that disproportionately benefited itself, to the disadvantage of the periphery nations. Germany prospered, they lost competitiveness. Now Germany acts to continue the game, attempting to force the l ...

Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments. All answers welcomed! This will be the last of these. The experiement started well, but the questions have tapered off in quality and quantity ...

Summary: Slowly realization spreads that we cannot afford our current military forces. This forces us to consider new forms of organization. In this, as in so many things, the Founders give us sound advice. Militia can provide a key component of our military. “Going Back to the Future ...

Summary: There are two paths for Europe. The path it is on, leading to a painful future and fundamental change. And the other path, with unknown risks and pain — but offering the potential for a better future. The path chosen by Europe’s leaders reveals much about them. The outco ...

Summary: Today guest author Bernard Finel discusses one of the major themes of the FM website: our broken thinking (aka dysfunctional observation-orientation-decision-action loop). This was originally posted at his website on 17 January 2012. “American Delusions” by Bernard Finel O ...

Open Your Eyes News

Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...

Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...

PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]

IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...

Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

We’re witnessing a remarkable shift in China’s relationship to global fashion: once “the world’s factory,” in Asian American fashion scholar Thuy Linh N. Tu’s words, China is now poised to be the world’s mall. While China remains a poor country with an average annual per capita consumption of $2 ...

On the tomb of Tamburlaine, King of Persia, there is a dread inscription, “When I rise, the world will tremble”. Faced with Tehran’s seeming determination to develop nuclear weapons the march towards confrontation this week quickened. After threats from Iran to close the oil-vi ...

AlertNet has published a great new feature on what humanitarian aid is going to look like in the coming years. The core of the AlertNet project is a survey of 41 aid agencies conducted between November and December of 2011. The respondents — often the head of an NGO — were asked about the future ...

On January 25, Egyptians marked the one-year anniversary of their revolution with another massive demonstration in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of what has become known variously as the Arab Spring, the Arab Awakening, or the Arab Uprising. Whatever term one chooses for the events that began wit ...

Now that the White House and President Obama himself (thanks Josh Rogin) have given Bob Kagan a heaping helping of buzz for his New Republic piece, I want to offer a few thoughts. First off, the cheesy partisan debate over perceived decline has been bugging me for a long time, so kudos to Bob fo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—Mitt Romney just can't drop his phony everyman act, and he added a new spin on it Friday night: the struggling young businessman. By this point anyone with even the slightest interest in politics is well aware of Romney's extreme wealth. Criticism from his rivals finally forced ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA—Presidential campaigns are often rote affairs. This fact is shielded from the majority of the voters, who tune into the debates and perhaps attend one town hall. The candidates strive to present their stump speeches as organic conversations delivered extemporaneously, no ...

Has Newt Gingrich floundered in Florida because he doesn’t understand his own appeal to GOP voters? In South Carolina, the former house speaker hit upon an anti-elite message that goes straight to the heart of the Tea Party—and the political moment. It was nothing new: the kind of silent-majori ...

We’re witnessing a remarkable shift in China’s relationship to global fashion: once “the world’s factory,” in Asian American fashion scholar Thuy Linh N. Tu’s words, China is now poised to be the world’s mall. While China remains a poor country with an average annual per capita consumption of $ ...

On January 25, Egyptians marked the one-year anniversary of their revolution with another massive demonstration in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of what has become known variously as the Arab Spring, the Arab Awakening, or the Arab Uprising. Whatever term one chooses for the events that began wi ...

Buzzflash

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Can you imagine the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln - who beat Stephen Douglas and two third-party candidates - being determined by corporate money spent on television, radio and newspaper ads? The issue of slavery - and possible civil war - were ...

TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If I'd been moderating at this particular point I don't think that I would have missed this Chance to point out that Callista would have Also been a really wonderful First Mistress. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120127/D9SH10SG3.html

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Why do the Republicans and some Democrats in Congress enable the loss of jobs in America? Perhaps it is because, as BuzzFlash at Truthout has noted many times, many of their corporate paymasters are now global corporations that don't really give a h ...

STEFANIE PENN SPEAR FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT President Obama's State of the Union address could perhaps best be described as the good, the bad and the ugly. Obama wants to generate American-made energy and set a clean energy standard that encourages investment in renewable energy and energy eff ...

Body It seems it isn't enough to have a political opinion and to exercise freedom of speech without spending inordinate amounts of cash or to ignore the parts of the Constitution that don't fit an ideological profile. Thus the Supreme Court and other supporters of unfettered gun rig ...

Sciencebase

The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...

On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

I’ve not yet seen the Aurora borealis, nor the Aurora australis, but they’re always on my mind. I am sure they’re amaaazing and wunderfuuul. This week a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun stimulated the earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field to produce some marvellou ...

A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...

Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law commends Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) for taking steps to address the importance of protecting the right to fully participate in our democracy for all Americans, especially vulnerable and traditionally disenfranchised ...

News that Florida utility Progress Energy plans to cancel the construction contract for its proposed nuclear reactors in Levy County -- and will leave customers with a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars -- should convince Iowa legislators to finally abandon a proposal by MidAmerican Energy ...

On Thursday, Free Press released Citizens Inundated, a report that show how the nation's largest broadcasters are profiting from a massive increase in election ad spending, while at the same time cutting back on their news coverage of elections. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) ...

Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, today commented on some of the recommendations of the final report of the Presidential Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on America’s Nuclear Future. The commission was created to address U.S. nuclear wast ...

Common Dreams-Views

David Cay Johnston The World Economic Forum opened in Davos amid choruses of central bankers and economists calling for governments to cut spending. This message of austerity is like the call of the ancient Sirens, whose music lured sailors ...

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez There was some rolling of eyes in my community when President Obama announced he would like to see high school mandatory until age 18. That’s because at Bard College of Simon’s Rock, ...

Renee Parsons As an attack on Iran remains temporarily on the backburner and Syria, home to US-identified terrorist group Hamas, moves up the queue as the next target for military intervention, both are part of a larger strategy proposed to ...

Julia Olmstead I feel uneasy sleeping in a house without functioning smoke detectors. I lock my doors at night. I salt my sidewalk when it's icy. I always wear my seatbelt. Like most people, I prefer to minimize my chances of getting hu ...

Eric Margolis Last Monday, Egyptians celebrated the first anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the 30-year Mubarak regime. By contrast, America’s reaction this historic event was tellingly muted. Egypt contains a quarter of th ...

GERMAN HOMEOWNERS have a long list of bills to pay every month, starting with water and refuse charges and ending with bills for cleaning the street (dirt and snow) and even lighting the street lamp outside their door.

CHIPLEY – Washington County Planning Commission held discussions on Rhythm, but took no action during their regularly scheduled meeting on Jan. 10 and had several guests to speak with the commission as well as with citizens, which included four...

Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 25 January 2012 The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent despite the threats against him, and why he thi ...

Yara Sa'di 24 January 2012 Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem have been put under house arrest for a week after calling for a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Alexander Billet 24 January 2012 Hesham Alofoq (aka Sphinx) of the Egyptian hip-hop group Arabian Knightz speaks to The Electronic Intifada about the history of hip-hop in Egypt and the Middle East, the future of the Egyptian uprising, and the role that music plays in the revolt.

The Wonk Room

Last night during the panel segment of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher said the Republicans during President Obama’s State of the Union speech last week “were such sour pusses.” “Just in your own self interest, wouldn’t it be good to fake it when he’s t ...

Speaking today at the National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change in Baltimore, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan introduced a broad and sweeping set of new nondiscrimination protections the department will be implementing. Under the new guidelines, any program that receives funding or insur ...

Earlier today, Scotland Yard arrested five more individuals, including a police officer, in the ever-growing News Corporation phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom. While previous arrests focused on phone hacking at the now-closed News of the World tabloid, today’s arrests are relate ...

MIAMI, Florida — During an immigration roundtable at the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network conference, former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez scolded those (primarily on the right) calling for the United States to adopt English as its official language. Gutierrez, who served dur ...

JR: “Leading climate scientists have given their support to a Freedom of Information request seeking to disclose who is funding the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based climate sceptic thinktank chaired by the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson.” As the UK Guardi ...

thwap's schoolyard

Via "Northern Reflections" we get Susan Riley's "harper wins when voters snooze." She says some interesting things. She mentions harper's numerous fuck-ups, lies and demonstrations of hypocrisy, notes how none of these penetrate the thick skulls of his supporters and then: What about everyone el ...

I was going to type something offensive about Patrick Ross for shits n' giggles (as Austin Powers once put it) but I thought better of it. Then one thing led to another and I'm typing a post for the day at 11:44 pm. I think I'll watch a documentary about telescopes instead.

It is dogmatism. Cut taxes on corporations and the wealthiest for over a decade. Pretend not to notice the lack of a corresponding increase in investment in the economy. Cut public services and pretend not to notice the increase in homelessness and misery. Globalize and automate jobs away and pr ...

So, stephen harper convened a summit with leaders from Canada's First Nations communities in order to be able to insult them and ignore them. Here's SOME of the insulting stuff: Phillip said the prime minister basically told chiefs that he couldn’t just focus on their issues because he had to ...

At the beginning of the month, at a loss for anything productive to say, I posted a link to the "Bad-Ass Honey-Badger" video on YouTube. Well, today, commenter "sailsmart" replied that I should write about how the harpercons are giving money to NGO's like PLAN, the World University Service Canad ...

on Government Oversight

By DANA LIEBELSON The revolving door that carried former Department of Defense honcho William Lynn III to a well-paying job with an Italian defense contractor keeps on spinning – now Gen. James Cartwright, who retired as the nation’s second-highest ranking military officer in August, is followi ...

While the other NHL players taking part in the all-star weekend get to focus on hockey and having fun at an event that is, after all, about hockey and having fun, Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas cannot.

On Feb. 4, 2012 Rosa Parks, the woman that made America better by sitting on a bus, will have her 99th birthday, posthumously. Parks became a civil rights heroine Dec. 1, 1955 at the age of 42 and lived another 50 years.

End Homelessness | Change.org

Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...

This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...

What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...

Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...

Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

The Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which seeks both to bar the entry of war criminals into Canada and to facilitate their prosecution, entered into force twelve years ago. Four departments and agencies of the government are tasked with implementing the war crimes law: the Canadian B ...

Before the F-35 fiasco, there was the Maritime Helicopter Program, another disastrous, wasteful military procurement program. Whatever happened to that program? As David Pugliese reported earlier this month (“Sikorsky hasn’t paid $8M fine for late helicopter delivery,” Ottawa Citizen ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

January 16, 2012 USA Today By Fredreka Schouten “It’s going to be hard to defeat the guy who as all the money in the world. Obama is like the Yankees of politics.” –KTRN President Obama and the Democratic Party have raised more than $240 million for his re-election, swamp ...

January 16, 2012 The Dollar Vigilante By TDV “Like stereotypes, conspiracies exist because there is some truth to them. Perhaps many of them are the truth.” –KTRN I’m reading an interesting book by Gary North called, “Conspiracy: A Biblical View”. I generally like reading Gary ...

January 16, 2012 The Dollar Vigilante By TDV “The War on Drugs has failed – everybody knows this. Prohibition does not work.” –KTRN Looks like the Netherlands has a unique crime problem – it doesn’t have enough criminals! According to ncl.nl, “The Dutch justice ministry h ...

January 16, 2012 Info Wars By Paul Craig Roberts America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect Ron Paul President, or they can descend into tyranny. Why is Ron Paul America’s last chance? Because he is the only candidate who is not owned lock, stock, and barrel by [...]

January 16, 2012 Washington Post By Jonathan Turley “Wouldn’t it be amazing if we were really free? –KTRN Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the passage of restrictive laws and regulations around the world. Iran, ...

Armies of Liberation

The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...

In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...

Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

The Arab League suspended its controversial observer mission in Syria on Saturday as the bloodshed in a crackdown on anti-regime protests spiked, with the death toll topping 210 in four days. The announcement came as the opposition Syrian National Council said its leader would travel to New York ...

By Stephen LendmanSaturday, January 28th, 2012 by Stephen Lendman Internet freedom’s on the line. SOPA and PIPA threatened Net Neutrality and free expression. So does ACTA. More on it below. For now, the largest online protest in Internet history got Congress to abandon SOPA and PIP ...

Aaron Dykes PrisonPlanet.com January 28, 2012 In an end-run around an all out gun ban, the New Jersey Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee is set to consider legislation that would ban ammunition under the auspices of protecting police. The language seemingly targets the already prohibite ...

A raft of Western economic sanctions on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme are increasingly stifling the lives of ordinary Iranians, hit by rising inflation and growing isolation. EU and US banking sanctions put in place 18 months ago, and reinforced on Monday, have fuelled Iran&#8217 ...

A Republican lawmaker from North Carolina is seeking a return to the days of public hanging, according to WRAL-TV. Rep. Larry Pittman delivered an email this week to every member of the state’s General Assembly, describing that hangings needed to be reinstated as a “deterrent to crim ...

Dandelion Salad

by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org January 27, 2012 When I recently went to Alta Bates hospital for surgery, I discovered that legal procedures take precedence over medical ones. I had to sign intimidating statements about financial cou ...

Dandelion Salad MSF UK 26/01/2012 Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata. MSF teams began working in Misrata’s detention ce ...

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 25 January 2012 From beginning to end, Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was replete with delusion and falsifications. His promise of building an “America that lasts” was predicated on a sentimental, but utterly disingenuous no ...

with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Jan. 24, 2012 OccupyTVNY on Jan 24, 2012 On January 20th, occupiers across the country rallied together in protest against the insidious influence of the corporations over the judiciary. Shortly before the rally in Foley Square, New York CIty, La ...

Your New Reality

Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Britain Embraces Apocalyptic Doom It's grim, and getting grimmer, but as this UK Guardian story by Andy Beckett reveals Brits can't get enough of the end of the world : A sense of doom dominates recent films such as Melancholia, in which a vast unknown planet suddenly appears from behind the su ...

A journey to see the black hole claimed to be at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy : I love these cosmological photo-montage animations. They're even better than the ones I saw in my head as a kid, when we could only look at drawings of star-fields in science books and have to imagine such a ...

Official : Predator Drones Now Flying American Skies By Darryl Mason When I first started writing here 5 years ago about how unarmed and armed drones (or Flying Killer Robots) were being tested in warzones for later deployment in the skies above the United States, it was Crazy Conspiracy Theor ...

Grow Your Own Food And Save Your Town You change the world by starting in your hometown. The idea of famine in the United States, or England, was pure science fiction until only a few years ago. It's not now. Undernourished American children may well replace child obesity as an extreme problem ...

What a great week! I managed to finish the basic seating structure completely, now only awaiting ergonomic foam build up and coating. But, even better Claus Nørregaard and I managed to perform the first two tests of the drogue separation system for space capsule Tycho Deep Space. If you have no ...

Jumping spiders' keen vision makes them the cats of the invertebrate world, but scientists have puzzled over how their miniature nervous systems manage such sophisticated hunting behavior. A new study fills in a key ingredient: an unusual form of depth perception.

Israeli Occupation Archive

Herein lies the Zionist left’s main international success: namely the framing of the conflict as being about war and peace between two equal parties, ‘two peoples who fight for the same territory’,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

We remember Howard Zinn, our friend and teacher (and among the first members of the IOA Advisory Board), who passed away on 27 January 2010, leaving a formidable legacy. In the words of his close... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

A presentation at SUNY New Paltz entitled "Honoring Howard Zinn: An Historian Who Made History," given on 4 December 2011. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Anonymous Hackers: "@haaretzprint we are sorry , we didn't know that haaretz is a good newspaper,we sorry about this , and be sure no one will attack u again." IOA Editor: In an interesting... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

Pentagon is stepping up efforts to make a bomb capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal said on Saturday referring to U.S. officials briefed on the plan.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Friday proposed setting up a government body responsible for consolidating efforts aimed at the creation of an effective aerospace defense network in the country.

NewsWise

At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.

Taking inspiration from the yellow fattail scorpion, which uses a bionic shield to protect itself against scratches from desert sandstorms, scientists have developed a new way to protect the moving parts of machinery from wear and tear.

The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are reporting in a new study.

Consumers who remember laundry detergents from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are about to get that deja vu feeling -- and younger people quite a surprise -- as detergent manufacturers once again try a major repackaging of their products. Laundry capsules that contain single doses of detergent and t ...

Transplant patients who develop head and neck cancer are more likely to be non-smokers and non-drinkers, and less likely than their non-transplant counterparts to survive past one year of diagnosis, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Natural Health News

2011 was the first year in more than two decades during which there were no deaths from whooping cough. In 2010, 10 infants died from the disease. The number of people who became infected also dropped from 9,000 in 2010 to just 3,000 in 2011. The state passed a law requir ...

The UK government has asked a group of experts to review current official dietary advice regarding vitamin D supplementation. The government also intends to write to all GPs to remind them that they should be advising all people in at-risk groups to take vitamin D supplements. A survey la ...

For a number of years, scientists have been studying “brown fat”. Brown fat is a heat-generating fat that burns energy instead of storing it. Human newborns have a supply of brown fat to keep warm, but by adulthood they lose most of their stores of it. In a new study, scientists found tha ...

Spirulina is a microalgae that exhibits potent dietary antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties. A new study investigated whether it could provide protection against liver damage induced by the drug cisplatin. The study examined mice that were given cisplatin. Their ...

A new study has demonstrated that the brains of animals exhibit important protein changes following whole body exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields. These fields are similar to the kind of microwave radiation emitted from cell phones, portable phones, WiFi and wireless comput ...

Climategate

Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...

Opinio Juris

by Roger Alford by Roger Alford This week was a blockbuster one in the ongoing battle between Chevron and Ecuador. On Wednesday, the arbitral tribunal adjudicating Chevron’s BIT claim issued an Interim Award ordering Ecuador “to take all measures at its disposal to suspend or cause ...

by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I want to thank Scott Kennedy for his insightful comments. Kennedy’s work has been instrumental in increasing our understanding o ...

by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Scott Kennedy, associate professor of Political Science and East Asian Languages & Cultures and director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business at Indiana University, responds to Mark Wu, Antid ...

by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, describes his recently published article, Antidumping in Asia’s Emerging Giants. This article is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juri ...

by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [This post is part of the Third Harvard International Law Journal/Opinio Juris Symposium.] I appreciate Professor Vázquez’s thoughtful response to my article, Executing Foster v. Neilson: The Two-Step Approach to Analyzi ...

AZ Housing Crisis Opens a Unique Job Market PHOENIX – Arizona real estate developers were selling houses as fast as they could build them – until the bottom fell out of the market. Now, hundreds of new homes and condos stand empty, threatened with decay and vandalism. What can prope ...

Arizona Scores Well On Taxpayer ‘Money-Back Guarantees’ PHOENIX - Arizona stacks up well against other states when it comes to making sure taxpayer-funded economic development subsidies for businesses actually create good-paying jobs. The finding is in a new report from the organizat ...

The Center for Food Safety Pushes Back Against Gates Foundation “Feed the World” Propaganda The Center for Food Safety (CFS) pushed back today against longtime biotech crop supporter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, over its announcement that it has invested nearly $2 billion ...

AB 88—the California bill which would have required that all genetically engineered (GE) fish sold in California contain clear and prominent labeling—failed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 9-7. AB 88 was stalled in Appropriations last year, and was held-over for reint ...

Dow Chemical is currently requesting an unprecedented USDA approval: a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Agent Orange was the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in Vietnam, and it caused lasting ecological ...

EXTRA-LABEL BAN A WIN FOR CONSUMERS, FOOD SAFETY ADVOCATES, AND MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MORE ACTION STILL NEEDED The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today for pre-releasing its long awaited prohibition on the extra-label use of cephalosporin drugs i ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Pensieve

I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...

Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...

With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...

Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...

Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...

Green Times

This curled up plant is slowly unfurling and waking up. If you go for a walk in one of Australia's National Parks (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) you will be surrounded by plants and flowers. Photo by: Alexandra Meusel

Tips to take a moment for yourself This a great video for everyone who feels like they have no time to meditate. All you need is a 'moment', if you know what to do.Watch and try it for yourself! Video found on the Padre Ralph blog.

The Iguazu Falls are located on the border of Brazil and Argentina and divide the Iguazu River into a high and a low part. You can visit the falls through two main towns: Puerto Iguazu in Argentina and Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil. These falls are shared between two national parks: (glossary/wildlif ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus). Ikhlas is sitting to the left of Erella and Ehud ...

As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law. The older of the two, Sausan Hamamdeh, reache ...

Reposted with permission from www.gazagateway.org In sixth place: “The civilian closure has been lifted and only security restrictions remain”. Gaza is not as isolated from the rest of the world as it was a few years ago, but it is still cut off from the West Bank and it’s hard to find convi ...

IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death. But a defective system essentially ensures that the investigation will not be conducted in a fair and impartial manner, enabling soldiers to contin ...

Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song? The following is a testimony of one of the women, out of the 23 activists, who were arrested in this week’s Nabi Saleh demonstration (above video). This demonstration was the first after Mustafa Tamimi’s murder. It was extremely brutal, which is a relative te ...

Politics in the Zeros

The powerful Southern Nevada Water Authority, a direct competitor for Colorado River water against the behemoth Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, has a massive revenue shortfall and may have to raise water rates to meet it. This will certainly infuriate their water customers. ...

Bankster thugs have nearly succeeded in destroying the European economy and the Eurozone. Because it’s all about them and not taking a haircut on the garbage bonds they sold and the dicey loans they made. Now Greece is about to blow up. ‘There is no European emergency plan’ Ge ...

Think Progress A new study released this week by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection finds that “there is no evidence for a set of health effects…that could be characterized as ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome.’” The supposed health impacts pushed by wind oppo ...

Magnetic soap (Credit: Image courtesy of Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)) It may sound silly at first, but the discovery of magnetic soap could lead to a way to reclaim soaps used in industry and in disasters like oil spills. Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, compose ...

UBS tried to deep six documents of holocaust victims’ bank accounts, so why did Romney park his money there? Am I the only person in the world that this has occurred to? Mitt Romney had a $3 million dollar account in UBS (United or Union Bank of Switzerland). Why would he leave his money ...

As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...

On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...

Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...

This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

“Do you think money grows on trees?” Dad It’s something most of us learn when we’re very young. Money isn’t easy to come by. You have to earn it. You have to work for it. You have to do your chores. You have to get a job delivering newspapers. You have to mow people ...

CNET Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill (PDF) requiring ...

POLITICO Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met Friday evening with former president George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, in the Oval Office. White House officials did not list the meeting on the president’s schedule but released a photo on Flickr. ...

Take that “City on the Hill” – American Exceptionalism? – Do you get it now? We cannot preach Human Rights to China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc… If we are not the best example of it here at home. No excuses! O’Bomba is your alleged president… The buc ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. It was a stunning role reversal for a youthful ...

The Air Vent

I’ve been spending time working on improved sea ice code. Anthony Watts asked for something and Steve McIntyre helped find the right R function to get it going. I want to also overlay SST data as well as flow direction in the videos. Hopefully it will lead us to some statistical analysis. ...

A guest post by Dr. Weinstein in response to a post by Dr. Spencer. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC MASS AND CO2 ON GROUND TEMPERATURE Leonard Weinstein, ScD January 17, 2012 The issue has been raised about the effect of the mass of an atmosphere on surface temperature. It can be shown that if no optical ...

A guest post by Dr. Weinstein in response to a post by Dr. Spencer. EFFECT OF ATMOSPHERIC MASS AND CO2 ON GROUND TEMPERATURE Leonard Weinstein, ScD January 17, 2012 The issue has been raised about the effect of the mass of an atmosphere on surface temperature. It can be shown that if no optical ...

Tom Fuller has started blogging again. He used to post at the SF examiner – until he also quit. Many of you will remember that he and I hold different views on politics but I find him honest and a far better writer than me. According to his email, his new blog will focus on [...]

Tom Fuller has started blogging again. He used to post at the SF examiner – until he also quit. Many of you will remember that he and I hold different views on politics but I find him honest and a far better writer than me. According to his email, his new blog will focus on [...]

Focal Point

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...

Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...

Inside Facebook

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Tapjoy, LolGames, GREE International, Inc., Spooky Cool Labs, Plumb ...

Facebook COO Shifts Europe focus from privacy to economy - At a recent conference in Europe, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the audience that the economy is probably more of a concern than privacy. She said so given an impending … Continue reading →

This post is an excerpt from the NEW, revamped Facebook Marketing Bible — a major update to the leading resource for marketing and advertising strategies on Facebook. If you’re interested in learning more about this upcoming update, check out a … Continue reading →

Facebook is in the final stages of preparing a filing for a much anticipated public offering, sources familiar with matter tell us. The Wall Street Journal reports that such a filing could come as early as Wednesday and says that Morgan … Continue reading →

Some pundits expect Rick Santorum to drop out of the race after the Florida primary, but his Facebook page has gotten a burst of new Likes since Thursday’s debate, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker. There is still time … Continue reading →

ReDress News

Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...

Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.

Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...

Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.

Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...

Amazon Rainforest

The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...

The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...

United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...

The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Harvesting the Fruits of “Regime Change” in Libya In the last few decades one never-changing modus operandi in our imperial pursuits and operations overseas has been the formation, financing, training, control and domination of our target countries’ military force. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Tunisi ...

Consolidation & Leveraging of Power in the Hands of a Select Few With the National Defense Authorization Act, the Enemy Expatriation Act, and other startling measures by the US government to crack down on their own population making headlines around the world at the moment, the idea of an A ...

BFP Nightly Quote “NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.&#82 ...

BFP Nightly Quote “COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cow ...

Sibel Edmonds on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock This morning I was interviewed by Ernest Hancock. There are a few things I like about Ernest’s show: long enough to really cover the subjects, daring and bold, flexible enough to get into unexpected topics spontaneously, and its abil ...

Afro Spear

His Story: An Anointing Message To Fathers for 2012 Black America Always Invests in the WRONG People The Invisible Black Men How Brothers and Sisters in the Black Community Can Help the Invisible Black Men

“The above outlines the root cause of things in Nigeria and I am sure there is not much difference in other countries. So, at this juncture, are we, black people of the westen hemisphere, truly obligated to step in and do for Africa what it appears that many Africans won’t do for Africa? ...

I’ve been following the news events about Nigeria’s supposedly Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. However, something doesn’t sit right with me in the way the whole situation is being reported. Of course, western media as usual simplifies all conflicts into 2 opposing sides&#8 ...

As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. To start with, the US pays the salaries for the Sudan Peoples L ...

Expose the BNP

Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...

A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...

The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...

On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...

On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...

What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...

In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...

Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...

Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

EnclosureUSA.com presents a small portion of the text taken from my book Cap-Com, The Economics Of Balance, 1995 -- Reviewing the historical phenomenon of enclosure is essential to understanding the nature of our latter-day "free market" capitalism with its gross and growing imbalance of power ...

Congress has handed President Obama more executive branch power, further damaging the "balance of power" that protects Democracy. This time he's signed ACTA, an international treaty that could make the worst fears about SOPA and PIPA seem minor.

Switchboard

Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City By reducing New York’s reliance on fossil fuel based energy generation, the New York Solar Jobs Act (NYSJA) will result in $158 million to $226 million in total public health benef ...

Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales last week (or close to it). Okay, let’s start with some dolphin news. The big news last week was the mass stranding of dolphins that continued ...

Dale Bryk, Director, Air & Energy Program, New York Who doesn’t want more good things? And by good things, here’s some of what I mean: • pollution cuts that help protect the health of our children and of our increasingly fragile a ...

Linda Greer, Director, Health and Environment Program, Washington, D.C. This week, the New York Times week published articles about Apple Computer ( here and here) which paint a grim picture about the prospects that manufacturing will ever move back ...

Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC When we turn on the heat in our homes or start our cars, most of us don’t think about the creatures that may be harmed as a result. But the fact is that oil, gas, and coal extraction is o ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained thro ...

Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the Mississippi River to prevent flooding and facilitate commerce and petroleum companies challenging through the m ...

Evidently, Bijan’s sophisticated empirical analysis in a dying thread merits front-page coverage. Although I certainly hope that in keeping with the tenets of Paul-curiosity reproductive freedom and other such trivialities were not considered “civil liberties” issues. For a fol ...

Looks like the Republican Party has another state politician sure to appeal to the wingunttia masses. This time it’s in North Carolina, where state Rep. Larry Pittman is calling for the return of public hangings: “We need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually carryin ...

Desert Research Institute

The February Edition of Scientific American features the work of DRI’s Joseph McConnell, Ph.D. The article includes interviews with several scientists whose research examines how dust influences climate and cloud formation—and the fertilization of oceans and rain forests.

Dr. Hans Moosmüller is busy, always thinking about his next invention. This is evident as he currently holds five patents and has four more pending. His most recent patent offers a simple way to help quantify the aerosol contribution to climate change.

Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...

DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).

National Law Journal | U.S.

It's an ugly situation — pro bono work by large law firms is on a steep decline. This year's Pro Bono Hot List highlights 10 firms that haven't forgotten their professional obligations even — especially — during hard times. Often, at considerable expense or risk to themselves.

On Jan. 26, nearly a year after Chevron Corp. asked a New York federal court to block enforcement of a multibillion-dollar judgment in Ecuador over oil contamination in the Amazon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit said no in the most sweeping possible terms. Where does Chevron go fro ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

I heard this piece from State Impact PA (WITF/NPR) this morning on my drive to work. Corbett wants to make decisions about gas drilling based on facts, not emotional…and then his administration goes and cuts the funding for research that provides just the sort of facts he is talking about. ...

This video documents Simona Perry’s research on the emotional and traumatic effects of the natural gas drilling, specifically in Bradford County, PA. http://mediasite.cidde.pitt.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=689293c50f404f12b8c628b8f2285780

I know I’ve been away from this blog for a while now but it looks like folks are still finding it. The following link was passed on to me, and good for a few laughs despite the depressing topic, and I just had to pass it along. Enjoy and share! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZptKESRzio&#3 ...

The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening. Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling

By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...

News Blaze

The Archbishop Emeritus has been a 'staunch advocate' for universal human rights, including the right to food, as well as the rights to clean water, shelter, hygiene, sanitation and health care, the agency noted in a news release.

Reformers are expecting strong resistance from the states teacher unions. Last year, the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut disgraced itself when it was revealed that the union used subterfugeto water down a 2010 parent trigger law, which w

Since 2002, students chosen from Brazil's public schools for their leadership and community service have visited the United States for a three-week exchange program sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Embassy in

The options begin May 1 and end April 30, 2013. They will bring the total contract value to $365.1 million. The original contract, awarded in 2006, was for three years, with two one-year options ending April 30, 2011.

environment 360

A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...

California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...

A U.S. scientific panel is calling for a systematic study of the growing use of nanomaterials in industry, saying little is known about the risk of the microscopic particles increasingly being used in everything from cosmetics to clothing and paint. The National Research Council (NRC), part of t ...

The big electric car launches of 2011 failed to generate the consumer excitement that some had predicted. But as new battery technologies emerge and tougher mileage standards kick in, automakers and analysts still believe that electric vehicles have a bright future. BY JIM MOTAVALLI

Wildlife experts say an unprecedented number of snowy owls have ventured south into the northern U.S. this winter, a spike that may be driven by a dearth of Wikimedia Commons A snowy owl food in the Arctic. From Seattle to Boston, bird-watchers have spotted the owls — marked by bright whi ...

Red Ice Creations

Talks between the Greek government and its private sector creditors appeared to be on the verge of breaking down on Friday, as the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which is negotiating on the behalf of bondholders, said that it was taking "a pause for reflection." Eurozone leaders, Gree ...

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the government debt of France, Austria, Italy and Spain, but maintained Germany’s at the coveted "AAA" level. The cuts, which eliminated France and Austria’s triple-A status, deal a heavy blow to the currency union’s ability to fight off a worsenin ...

GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories Company was fined 400,000 pesos by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT in Spanish) for irregularities during lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008 that allegedl ...

It’s not just the Mayan calendar that’s raising 2012 worries-our own calendar is stoking fear, too. This year, there are three Friday the 13ths, compared to the usual two. That last happened in 2009. What’s even stranger is that exactly 13 weeks pass between the first and second occurrence, and ...

Schools are being turned into prisons as children are subjected to increasingly sophisticated surveillance and security measures, according to a report. Researchers found the widespread use of CCTV, ID cards, electronic registration systems, fob-controlled gates and fingerprint technology as sch ...

Russia Today

While Moscow is bracing itself for a third massive demonstration of “street” opposition, thousands of blue-collar workers have flocked to Ekaterinburg to support Russia’s prime minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir...

Three activists from the notoriously clothing-optional FEMEN protest group were arrested in Davos Saturday as they raged against the current World Economic Forum, which they say overlooks the poorest amongst us.

Seattle has an interesting choice about how to spend this Sunday: a barbeque, an Occupy event or Babylonia Aivaz’s wedding…to a 107-year-old building. And Aivaz needs to do it quick: demolition of the warehouse has...

Online hacktivist group Anonymous has blocked access to Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry websites. The attack is a protest against a proposed law that will see those who violate copyright online fined one million...

Not My Tribe

Vancouver’s Adbusters Magazine sent the initial callouts to occupy Wall Street, to be the natural successor to unfinished revolutions in Tahrir Square and Madrid. Quickly enough it escaped their grasp. Adusters has issued two dozen “Tactical Briefings” since before September 17 ...

OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Ft Carson’s environmental PR team held what’s called a “draft Environmental Assessment,” prerequisite to their addition of a Combat Aviation Brigade to America’s “Best Hometown in the Army”. Except for a car-dealer and realtor ...

Robert Fantina asks this question and answers it well in his excellent commentary Stolen Land- Israel, Settlements and Democracy The green on the maps above represent the original land that Palestinians had for their people back in 1946, now being rapidly stolen away by others up to the year 200 ...

Per wikipedia, Occupy Nigeria is a protest movement that began in Nigeria on Monday, 2 January 2012 in response to the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday, 1 January 2012. I believe that Occupy Nigeria actually began much sooner than this, but ...

The conventional corporate media scribble is that Egyptians made a revolution a year ago when they overthrew the dictator Mubarak. However, Mubarak was not alone what oppressed Egypt and made their country one of poverty and lacking in human rights. It was the US constructed ‘Egyptian&#821 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

Written by Adam Taylor [Response to attempted debunking of this article] ae911truth.org Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:21 We first frame the issue by noting that the answer to this question does not negate the evidence that the Towers were destroyed through controlle ...

Written by John-Michael Talboo ae911truth.org Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:03 Q. Isn’t it true that the signatories at AE911Truth represent only a small percentage of all architects and engineers worldwide? Regardless of the hundreds of architects and engineer ...

Written by AE911Truth [Including contributions by John-Michael Talboo] Thursday, 08 December 2011 13:36 Images like this one reveal that the squibs were not merely puffs of air, as they have the same hue and consistency as pulverized solid building materials ...

James B. of Screw Loose Change recently commented on my FAQ article posted at AE911Truth and, surprise surprise, he wasn't very impressed. He says the claims in my article are "ironic (and moronic)," but the real irony here is that he clearly didn't carefully read what I wrote. So, what are Jame ...

It seems after almost three years, the debunkers are finally putting up. Chris Mohr has found a scientist willing to independently test the findings of Harrit et al: Here is my official request for funds to analyze the WTC dust. To summarize, after three months of investigating this, the best pe ...

Fooducate

This is a guest blog post by Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD Getting your fruits and vegetables may be the last thing on your mind on Superbowl Sunday. Don’t give it another thought. These winning munchies are so delicious that your family and friends may forget they’re good for you, too. Serve the dips ...

Nielsen recently surveyed over 25,000 people around the globe to learn about healthy eating trends. The marketing research firm published a report earlier this week,with some interesting findings. The most interesting for us is how confused people are by nutrition labels, with 6 out of 10 people ...

This picture was taken at a Shell Gas Station in the San Francisco area. Just a friendly reminder from the convenience store inside to fuel up on sugars and fats as you’re fueling your car. While automobiles can consume only one type of fuel, humans are a much more complex machine. We can ...

It’s always interesting to see what commercials will air during “The Biggest Loser”. Last night, Pop Tarts grabbed our attention with their new “Wildlicious” line of toaster pastries: Buckle up and unwrap a fusion of fruit flavor. Cherry, orange, strawberry, raspber ...

Hi folks, My son just got braces and we’d like your advice on foods to eat in the first few days and then going forward for the next 9-12 months. The Orthodontist said that the teeth and gums will be sore and sensitive for a few days, so liquids will play a big role in [...]

Traffikd

Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...

When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]

Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...

So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Greg Palast

For Firedoglake by Greg Palast “They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.” “Pig Man #2,” a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid. He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline ...

by Greg Palast President Obama just nixxed the permit for the XL Keystone Pipeline for now. But - and this is one big but - he's talking about authorizing other pipelines to replace the XL. Look out! In my investigation for UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, our team disclosed information ...

By Greg Palast This month marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of No Child Left Behind. Before George W. Bush invaded Iraq he knew he would have to invade our classrooms first. While the occupation of Iraq has ended the brutal occupation of our classrooms by the Forces of Stupid remains. ...

by Greg Palast Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a network run by highly-educated America-haters. But there I was, last Friday, in this hotel room in Atlanta, a city preten ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

Mari has emailed asking about leftover chips – as in English chips eaten hot, thick fries not potato chips/crisps – saying her family nearly always have “eyes bigger than their bellies” when they order fish’n'chips and end up with some leftovers: Good thick chips no ...

Joel has an old toaster oven and would like ideas on how he can reuse or recycle it: My wife just bought a new toaster oven. The previous one had problems in her eyes, because the spring-loaded door didn’t work as smoothly as when new, and the unit, after three years, had a couple unsightliness ...

Good friend (and bully ;) ) of Recycle This and The Really Good Life Su has emailed with a question: Me again! With an actual, proper reuse question! My much used enamelled, cast iron casserole dish has died. Proper died, a large section of the enamel has come off the bottom & I dropped the ...

Bee has asked: What can I do with a lot of wood ash after it has been leached? I have a large firepit, and I plan on saving and leaching the ashes… but I’m very leery about tossing that much slag ash onto the compost heap. I’ve found lots of info about ashes before leaching, [...]

We’ve had an email from Mark: What is the best way to recycle small quantities of hot water from a condenser tumble dryer? I know i could pour it down the toilet, put it on the garden etc, but what are the economical benefits of reusing this clean water. Can it be used (when cold) [...]

Age of Autism

Registration for the Western Regional Conference in Sacramento is OPEN (register and learn more here.) Canaries of California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada, come meet with us in Sacramento You are cordially invited to attend the Canary Party Western Regional Meeting,...

Managing Editor's Note: Thank you to Dr. Martha Herbert for writing this letter to The New York Time: Re “New Autism Rule Will Trim Many, a Study Suggests” (front page, Jan. 20): Narrowing the definition of autism is a bad...

"The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is strongly supportive of efforts to increase influenza vaccination rates among healthcare workers in accordance with the Healthy People 2020 goals. However, at this time, OSHA believes there is insufficient scientific evidence for...

Autism organizations concerned that autism diagnostic changes will jeopardize services, impair tracking, and disrupt research around the globe. WASHINGTON, DC – Proposed changes to the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Stat ...

By Teresa Conrick With tics and Tourette-like illness in the news so much right now due to the increasing number of students at LeRoy HS in NY exhibiting them, it is with irony that P.A.N.D.A.S., a possible medical diagnosis for...

Farm Wars

Due to a computer virus – System Check – I will be offline for the most part trying to repair my computer. This is a particularly nasty virus that takes out all anti-virus protection as well as malware and spyware protection. It also hides your files. Here is a bit about it: System C ...

Open Your Eyes News

Reuters – Security forces killed over 40 people in Syria on Friday, activists and residents said, as people in Homs mourned 14 members of a family they said were slain by militiamen in one of the worst sectarian attacks in a 10-month revolt. Read Article

Guardian – Spanish unemployment broke through the 5-million barrier on Friday as the new government of Mariano Rajoy began to quietly beg the European Union to ease up on deficit targets that are sending the country hurtling back into recession. Spain, which already boasted Europe’s ...

CNet – Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill (PDF) re ...

BBC – Gen Rios Montt, 85, was in power from 1982-1983, when some of the country’s worst civil war atrocities occurred. Whole villages of indigenous Mayans were massacred as part of government efforts to defeat left-wing rebels. Gen Rios Montt, who has denied ordering massacres, refus ...

Independent – Economic sanctions by the European Union and the United States can only be allowed a limited time period to prevent Iran from attempting to acquire a nuclear arsenal before a military strike must be contemplated, Israeli leaders have declared. The tough public stance from Tel ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

A new map published today by the Natural Resources Defense Council makes it plain that extreme weather attributable to climate change isn’t something that only happens in other parts of the world. Chances are, you’ve had your own Hurricane Irene, or drought, or something like it, in your own bac ...

Activists in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are proposing a huge new shark sanctuary in the face of fishing pressures and the continued massive drop in shark numbers over the last decade worldwide. The Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, or PICI, is working with local fisheries autho ...

A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a 2010 ruling by a Sacramento Superior Court judge that the deal was improper because the Legislature had essentially signed blank-check to repair damage done to the Salton Sea.

Senator Barbara Boxer stepped up today to deliver an appeal for action at the mostly lackluster UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up this week in Durban, South Africa. Her speech was delivered to an almost-empty Senate TV/Radio gallery, which is indicative of the low priority given ongoi ...

Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with whaling and a gargantuan new Shell oil drilling p ...

January 12th marks the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti, leaving widespread destruction in and around Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people died and over a million were left homeless. One can still see the legacy of the earthquake with rubble and tent ...

Thirteen-year-old Atseda is lucky. Her friends in neighboring villages walk miles to collect dirty water each day. But not Atseda. Thanks to donors like you, she has clean water from a well right by her home.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

This discrimination is not limited to the south of the country. A Jerusalem bus driver was recently caught pouring racist invective on a group of Ethiopian children. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Cell 36 in Al Jalame prison, northern Israel, is one of a handful of cells where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. Submitted by Christine Linley to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

After killing the SOPA & PIPA bills in the US, the wave of protests may be circumvented by U.S. lobby efforts to send SOPA to Canada. Canada's bill C-11 could end up with SOPA-like rules, having the same/ similar effect on Internet & freedom of speech. Submitted by Susan V. to World | ...

In a sworn affidavit released Tuesday to The Canadian Press, Andrew Frank says he was told by his supervisor at ForestEthics that a PMO official had referred to their organization as an "enemy of the state." Submitted by Lynn Squance to World | Note-it! | Ad ...

Israel maintains there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while its critics claim otherwise. This is an interesting article about the construction boom in Gaza. Submitted by Fred H. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

SunPower Corporation stocks were up over 5% Wednesday afternoon following the company's announcement that it had begun construction on a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) project in California. read more

News Blaze

The Archbishop Emeritus has been a 'staunch advocate' for universal human rights, including the right to food, as well as the rights to clean water, shelter, hygiene, sanitation and health care, the agency noted in a news release.

Reformers are expecting strong resistance from the states teacher unions. Last year, the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut disgraced itself when it was revealed that the union used subterfugeto water down a 2010 parent trigger law, which w

Since 2002, students chosen from Brazil's public schools for their leadership and community service have visited the United States for a three-week exchange program sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Embassy in

The options begin May 1 and end April 30, 2013. They will bring the total contract value to $365.1 million. The original contract, awarded in 2006, was for three years, with two one-year options ending April 30, 2011.

Worldnews

Victoria Azarenka routed Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 to win the Australian Open women's title and secure the No. 1 ranking on Saturday night, all in her first Grand Slam final. The 22-year-old Belarusian dropped her opening service game and was down 2-0 after a nervous start before winning 12 o ...

Washington, Jan 28 (ANI): Scientists, including Indian-origin researchers, have found that a prion-like protein plays a key role in storing long-term memories. Memories in our brains are maintained by connections between neurons called "synapses". Neuroscientists at the Stowers Institute f ...

David Cameron has effectively watered down his opposition to a new EU deal to prop up the euro, to the anger of Tory MPs. As Brussels demanded yet more cash from the taxpayer to save the single currency, the Prime Minister agreed that the European Court of Justice could be used to enforce li ...

Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

André Romelle Young may just earn his self-given stage name, Dr. Dre, thanks to the innovative work of Purdue University researchers. The team discovered that acoustic waves from music, especially rap with its emphasis on bass, could be useful as power sources for implantable medical ...

Common Dreams

Over 100,000 Pakistanis rallied in Karachi Friday afternoon to protest US drone strikes on their country. The demonstrators also demanded that the Pakistani government continue the blockade on the NATO supply route to Afghanistan. The Times of India reports: ...

Japanese anti-nuclear protesters defied a government order Friday to vacate the area in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki. Protesters have been occupying the Ministry grounds since Sept. 11, 2011. The Japan Times reports Saturday: Antinuclear acti ...

The Pentagon released its latest budget request outline on Thursday in what was proposed as a paring down of defense spending; however, as many are now examining, the proposal aims to make cuts in certain areas, but it would actually increase baseline spending over a 10-year period. The proposal ...

Brazilian mining giant Vale and UK-based Barclays bank were given the dubious honor of being the top vote-getters in this year's survey asking participants to name the world's most destructive international corporations. The results of the survey are gathered by The Public Eye, an effort ...

Energy Collective

The losers in the Ener1 bankruptcy are those who invested in the common stock of Ener1. Their loss is unfortunate, but hardly novel among investors who buy high risk-high reward technology stocks. Their loss is of no consequence to U.S. taxpayers, whose $110 million grant was never intended to ...

Warren Buffet’s utility subsidiary, MidAmerican Energy Holdings, has made a number of large investments in renewable energy over the past few years. But the famed investor doesn’t exactly make environmentalists jump for joy. Buffett’s take on climate change has been schizophrenic, to put it kindly.

Green House - USA Today

How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.

What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.

Peoples Voice

by Stephen Lendman Economic analyst Harry Dent's 2009 book, titled The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History became a national bestseller. He predicted the current crisis and worse ahead. His new book, co-authored with Rodney Johnson, predic ...

By Rady Ananda On Jan. 26, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October. This signing ceremony merely f ...

By Jack A. Smith The new year has dawned upon a deeply troubled America. Times are not good in the best of all possible nation states, which has suddenly discovered that the seven-league boots with which it is accustomed to stride the globe have become ill-fitting and down at the heels. In rec ...

by Stephen Lendman Throughout its history, America glorified wars in the name of peace. From inception, they're perpetuated against one or more domestic or foreign adversaries. They include mass killing, assaults and abuse. Pacifism's called sissy or unpatriotic. Propaganda insists Ameri ...

John Cavanagh and Joy Zarembka What a difference a week makes. GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney finally disclosed on Tuesday that he paid a measly 13.9 percent of his vast income in taxes in 2010 and will probably pay just 15.4 percent on his 2011 earnings. Those rates are far lower than wh ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

We've all heard political leaders boast that the Canadian economy has fully recovered from the recession and that the recession was not as severe in Canada as in other countries. It turns out that both of those claims are false because they don't take population growth into consideration. Canad ...

Income inequality has been getting worse in Canada, rising at a faster pace than it has been in the U.S. The inequality is being driven by what’s happening at the very top of the income spectrum: the richest of the rich are breaking away from the rest of us. CCPA's latest infographic illustrate ...

Our new study released today shows that BC university graduates fully repay the cost of their tuition through taxes after graduation. University graduates in most cases earn more than those without degrees, and therefore pay more taxes. If post-graduation taxes were considered as tuition payment ...

CBC Radio’s weekly series, Type A released a comprehensive infographic based on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' recent report, Canada’s CEO Elite 100: The 0.01%. Click the image on the right to view infographic in full. For more information, read the original re ...

CCPA-NS, along with our partners, is currently working on the 11th annual Alternative Provincial Budget. This flagship document demystifies the budgeting process, making provincial finances accessible to all Nova Scotians. Look for its launch in March. Nova Scotia Alternative Provin ...

World Wide Hippies

One of my favorite political put-downs ever was administered in the early part of the 19th Century by arguably the most intelligent man of the age, and one ot the top three or four conrtenders for the honor off the smartest feller EVER–John Stuart Mill (Spoke English, French, German, Latin ...

By Jessica Pauline Ogilvie,thegloss.com- I do a lot of facial masks and scrubs in the name of experimentation, and so today I decided to give my punim a little break and focus on my weary feet. How weary? So fucking weary. Anyway, what I want to do this week is a scrub for my feet. [...]

by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY,.counterpunch.org – Drug addicts are pathetic but sometimes happy people. They are pitiable in their hopeless enslavement to something that dominates and will probably kill them, but seem content in a warped sort of way because they can be taken out of their bleak and di ...

By Jennifer Toth, WorldWideHippies- Couponing and being frugal may seem like a silly part of someone “else’s” life – but it is a HUGE part of the lives of those who practice it. We save $1000’s and $1000’s. It only takes a few minutes each day or maybe an hour on a Sunday afternoon to prepare [...]

by John Kozy,globalresearch.ca - A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved Man is a pathetic creature; a brute trying to be god but traveling in the wrong direction. Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which ...

FourWinds10

BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...

Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...

Crisis Maven

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...

When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...

The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...

In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...

No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese ...

Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my r ...

Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]

Join the forum discussion on this post With the recently announced foreclosure of Vinod Khosla venture Range Fuels, followed by the fire sale of Range Fuels’ assets to Vinod Khosla venture LanzaTech, I have been getting a lot of calls from reporters wanting to discuss exactly what happene ...

Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some ...

Rodale News

The industrial solvent used in the majority of American dry cleaners has always been risky business. Perchloroethylene is suspected of causing cancer, kidney and liver damage, and nervous system problems and, given its widespread use—more than 500 million pounds are produced in the U.S. each ye ...

Nowadays, even Sherlock Holmes would have trouble navigating the supermarket in search of truly healthy food. Marketing claims, labels, and ingredient lists are confusing—and that's just the point. Food corporations want to keep you baffled and tricked into thinking sugar-packed, salt-loaded, p ...

The kitchen is often the heart of the home, a bustling place to enjoy a good meal and mingle. But many common convenience foods, drinks, and gadgets found in the kitchen could be putting your health at risk. In fact, just last month, researchers found evidence that bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemic ...

It’s the middle of winter, and for many of us, that means we’re craving carbs. Potatoes, pastas, pastries—it all sounds good right about now, and with the summer and swimsuits months away, it can be easy to give in to those cravings. But letting our excuses win does more than just sabotage the ...

Good indoor air quality is crucial for a healthy home. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemicals in gas form that can cause respiratory irritation, and even cancer, and make your hormones to go out of whack, can waft out of furniture and cabinetry glues, carpet adhesives, furniture finishes, ...

big think

What's the Latest Development? Before 'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon gave a prepared speech to a gay audience recently, organizers wanted to make changes where Nixon had written that she chose to be gay. In a follow up story, Nixon said: "A certain section of our community is very ...

What's the Latest Development? The digital revolution is making more medical data available to more people but does that necessarily benefit patients? No, says cardiologist Eric Topol. He tells the story of a patient who received an at-home CT scan as a gift on Valentine's Day. The patie ...

All I can say is thank you to the readers who suggested that I pick up 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I loved it. But it wasn’t because of the language, especially since it was a translation. And it wasn’t because of the dialogue, because there wasn’t very much, or the point of view, since it alternat ...

New research finds that government regulations that restrict the supply of abortions performed after 15 weeks gestation in the state of Texas increased the price of late abortions by 37% ($454) and lead to an increase in the number of unintended births by over 6,600 in the three years following ...

What's the Latest Development? Certain individuals who score high on tests of narcissism also exhibit elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol. That is the conclusion of new research which gave 106 college students personality tests and measured the presence of cortisol in their sa ...

Information Liberation

A DeKalb County police *Officer of the Month* who was charged with stealing from people he had arrested has been fired, the department said Thursday. Officer Ghayth Abdul-Mughnee, on the force for four years, was arrested Wednesday on a warrant ch...

When you eat Oreo cookies, if you do eat Oreo cookies, how many do you eat? Three sounds sort of reasonable to me. Surely, after three, you have been "served." If I were a guest at someone's house and ate more than that, I would try to do it surrepti...

Back in 1997 Gregory Bresiger penned a piece for the Free Market tearing apart the notion of "socially responsible investing" (SRI). Managers focused on social issues instead of profits will perform poorly as resources are diverted to unproductive us...

There's a ton of debate all over the interwebs over this police shooting at a Carl's Jr. in Monterey Park, California. The suspect was smashing the windows at the store with a crowbar before the police shot him. *I had heard that he had gotte...

Strangers are out to get you, their forgotten baggage is probably filled with explosives, "DON'T ASSUME IT WAS LEFT BY ACCIDENT" reads an ominous sign in the NYC subway as part of Homeland Security's "If you see something, say something" fear-monge...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

What if a journalist had asked JFK this sort of question in 1960? Or Clinton in 1992? Of course, none would have. The press pack half a century ago was fully aware of Kennedy’s proclivities; but he allowed them such … Continue reading →

A very happy New Year to you all. Well, it seems the world is still here: Europe hasn’t imploded (yet), America is not yet (completely) certain of getting another four years of Obama; North Korea hasn’t deployed nuclear missiles (or … Continue reading →

G’day folks, I had planned a new post out today. Unfortunately, Santa’s main present for me at Christmas was a recurrence of this damn chest infection that laid me low in 2010. So I’m getting some rest, and I hope … Continue reading →

That’s it from me this year folks. LibertyGibbert will be officially closed from Friday, 16th December till Thursday, 5th January. You’ll still be able to access all articles in the archive, and comment if you like, but all posts will … Continue reading →

It’s all I can think of calling it. The MSM aren’t touching it; you even have to search WUWT carefully to find much mention of it. Perhaps it’s because of the sadly damp weather in Durban at the moment (in … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

The Alchemist learns how to manipulate tiny polystyrene beads with a set of micro-tweezers this week and spots the smoking gun in forensics using capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity. In the world of chemophobia has asked why parabens are still the focus of research int ...

On Christmas Day 2006, I posted a blog about how snowflakes are not all different and some of the science underlying the formation of snowflakes. The American Chemical Society had a nice infographic at the time showing the principles of snowflake formation (PDF here). There’s no snow aroun ...

I’ve not yet seen the Aurora borealis, nor the Aurora australis, but they’re always on my mind. I am sure they’re amaaazing and wunderfuuul. This week a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun stimulated the earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field to produce some marvellou ...

A flavonoid compound found in fruit and vegetables, luteolin, was recently hailed as an anticancer supernutrient by the tabloid media. Aside from the fact that over-dosing on antioxidants could be detrimental to one’s front-line immune response to pathogens, the research was purely laborat ...

Sometimes an old viral video needs another airing. In this video from about three years ago, a mixture of corn starch poured into a speaker cone is vibrated at 30 Hz using a signal generator and the video shot at 30 frames per second (coincident timing with the speaker frequency). Corn starch is ...

RFF Library

US EPA http://www.epa.gov/tri/NationalAnalysis/index.htm [From Press Release] …The 2010 TRI data show that 3.93 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment nationwide, a 16 percent increase from 2009. The increase is mainly due to changes in the metal mining secto ...

US DOE http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/DOE_CMS_2011.pdf [From a Climate Wire story by Joel Kirkland] “In general, global (rare earths) material supply has been slow to respond to the rise in demand over the past decade due to a lack of available capital, long lead times, trade policies ...

US EPA Office of the Inspector General http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2012/20121229-12-P-0162.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Jeremy Jacobs] U.S. EPA lacks an effective program to collect information and monitor the possible health risks posed by nanomaterials, according to a new report by the a ...

Chesapeake Bay Foundation http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1023 [From a story in the Suffolk News-Herald] Extensive government regulation of Chesapeake Bay pollution would create jobs, rather than kill them, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation claims in a new report… In December 2010, the U.S. ...

Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for DOE http://www.eipconline.com/uploads/Phase_1_Report_Final_12-15-2011.pdf [From an E&E Daily story by Paul Behr] Utility executives and state regulators from 39 states will study three widely different scenarios for the future of the ...

The moon of today is a static orb with little to no internal activity; for all intents and purposes it appears to be a dead, dusty pebble of a world. But billions of years ago the moon may have been a place of far more dynamism--literally. [More]

The color of a candidate’s skin failed to sway voters to depress the lever for either Obama or McCain in the 2008 election, immediate analyses of that contest seemed to suggest. Some pundits hailed it as the first postracial election. [More]

Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil pla ...

First Truths

Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...

From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...

Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...

From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...

I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

The James Robinson Johnston Distinguished Lecture Series was launched Wednesday night at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University by Dr. Afua Cooper, the current James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies. The series' inaugural speaker was internationally kn ...

Band Votes Resoundingly Against Taking Provincial Hush Money Members of the Pictou Landing Indian Band in Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, have voted resoundingly, 119-20, against accepting the provincial government's offer of $3 milli ...

David Seaton's News Links

David Seaton's News LinksIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. Thomas Friedman - NYT In older factories and, before them, on the farm, there were ...

David Seaton's News LinksWho knew, in the exuberance of 2008, that America was electing an introvert? And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics? Maureen Dowd - New York TimesWhy does Mitt Romney have money in the Caymans? Christian Science MonitorGingr ...

David Seaton's News LinksIf nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself ...

David Seaton's News LinksThe selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission is that if they had an atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, who has at least 200 such weapons. The idea being that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable numbe ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

Via Tyler Cowen, Benjamin Campbell and Samuel Wang report that your college major depends a lot on which particular psychopathologies are common in your family: We surveyed an entire class of high-functioning young adults at an elite university for prospective major, familial incidence of n ...

Are dead people voting in South Carolina? That's what their DMV director claimed in a sensational hearing a couple of weeks ago. To stop this, South Carolina desperately needs its photo ID law — currently on hold thanks to the Chicago thugs in the Obama Justice Department &mdas ...

We haven't had a picture of the cats up on the fence lately, have we? Let's fix that. Wednesday was a lovely day here in Southern California, and Inkblot and Domino both took turns promenading up and down the fence in the early morning sun. (Though not that early. They both need their beauty s ...

Matt Yglesias notes a tension in lefty thought today: the stuff we all support (better healthcare, more teachers, childcare, new infrastructure, etc.) is in the non-manufacturing sector, and yet we all cheer when President Obama calls for increased focus on manufacturing. So which do we want? ...

Insanity Report

Topics: Red Tails is not a good movie Black people’s fear of not supporting Kriss wants to be traded in the racial draft Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe Jay-Z inspires black fathers? Feminista Jones on Open Marriages and relationship advice MLK on a strip club flyer Great moments in White P ...

Mark Wahlberg is one of today’s biggest action movie stars, but as he sees it, his heroism doesn’t end at a film’s credits. Instead, he fancies himself a real badass off screen, too. In a new interview with Men’s Journal, Wahlberg says that world history would have been d ...

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Simple Climate

While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more clearly.

Seattle, Washington based “stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman says that using local carbon taxes to cut personal and corporate income taxes can fight climate change more effectively than the Kyoto Protocol – and he's not joking.

After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants competing with colder-adapted plants, who therefore face a battle to avoid extinction.

Considering competition between species and the differences in how quickly their ranges shift as climate changes suggests that more than previously thought are likely to be at risk of dying out, say Mark Urban from the University of Connecticut and colleagues.

Tense negotiations in South Africa in December laid a path for controlling greenhouse gas emissions across the world, and with those emissions and average temperatures controlling for short-term fluctuations reaching highs in 2010, we should encourage and help efforts to make controls law.

e!Science News

Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and do not get into mischief as often as boys. Prejudices like these are cultivated from early childhood onwards by everyone. "Approximately at the age of three t ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that a molecule critical to the development and plasticity of nerve cells - brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) - is severely lacking in brainstem neurons in mutations leading to Rett syndrome, a neurological developmenta ...

In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated -- displaying fear, when they showed him pictures of black people. This link between the amygdala and fear -- especially a fear of others unlike us, ...

Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, University of Georgia researchers are finding new strategies for ...

Brave New Climate

Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA asked if I’d like to reproduce his recent post, to give it exposure to the BNC audience. Given that I’m still in Spain and will be for a while, I’m happy to oblige. I think it’s an excellent piece — as I’ve come to expect from Ben &# ...

I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University of Adelaide: Corey Bradshaw, Damien Fordham and Salvador Herrando-Perez) are visiting a research c ...

Late last year, Tom Blees, I and a few other people from the International Award Committee of the Global Energy Prize answered reader’s energy questions on The Guardian’s Facebook page. The questions and answers were reproduced on BNC here. Now we’re at it again, this time for ...

I have published a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy with the title “Could nuclear fission energy,etc., solve the greenhouse problem? The affirmative case” (currently online first, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.11.041 — it will appear in the print version, with v ...

Below is the foreword I wrote, on invitation of Chuck Till and Yoon Chang, for the book “Plentiful Energy” (I included a shorter version in my review of the book on Amazon). In this short essay, I draw an analogy between the IFR and the Wright brothers’ 1903 ‘ ‘Flye ...

Indigenist Opinion

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Republicans are a Disease

Mitt Romney may have a good reason to not release his 2008, and 2009 tax returns. He may have made millions and paid zero income, or capital gains tax. Isn’t being filthy rich great! ‘Ol Mittens claimed in a Univision interview he gives 15% to “charity” too. You mean you ...

How did they pull it off? Getting Smeagol all taped up to give the response. I am sure it was Smeagol. All the things he was talking about any orc would love, and any Hobbit would hate. Giving the rich and corporations they own more tax cuts while cutting services for the poor. More of [...]

Parked in downtown Seattle, a gentleman in a nice shiny Cadillac saw the “Republicans Are A Disease” sign in the back of my car, and the 99% sticker on my coat, and yelled at me to wash my car. My car wasn’t really dirty…. He went on to tell me that Obama has been a [...]

No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main problem is simply the fact that most of America’s wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...

Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...

Appalachia Rising

Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...

All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...

Amped Status

Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...

By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...

Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...

Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...

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I wrote a piece in Haaretz yesterday entitled “The downside of unbridled support for Israel” (see below) disputing the claims that “Israel firster” is an antisemitic term, to which journalist Eli Lake commented in a tweet that it “has nothing to do with Israelis. Th ...

Jerusalem Post’s deputy editor demands Jews put Israel before the interests of their own country, while Daily Beast’s Eli Lake warns Israelis to stay out of the debate on Israel There is a heated debate going on in the US regarding the application of the term “Israeli Firster,& ...

Cold winter nights present new humanitarian challenges to homeless asylum seekers. While concerned citizens try to help, there is little they can do against a government explicitly working to make the lives of Israel’s refugee population as miserable as possible. By Noa Yachot South Tel A ...

Barak/Netanyahu – they are “one hand” - are presenting an Israeli attack as an inevitability. It seems the die has been cast – Netanyahu and Barak have decided to bomb Iran in a matter of months, as Ronen Bergman concluded in the New York Times Magazine - and now it&#8217 ...

While the Israeli media prefers to report on the new “World Forum of Russian Jewry”–launched at a UN event and formed to garner support in the fight against Iran–Maxwell Gaylard, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, has called fo ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

A new regulation under national environmental law will stop the Baillieu Government from reintroducing cattle to the Alpine National Park in Victoria without proper assessment of the potential for environmental damage.

Matt Weidner Blog

It’s just disgusting….and it keeps on going…. The Treasury Department approved pay packages worth $5 million or more for 49 executives at a handful of firms that received the biggest taxpayer bailouts between 2009 and 2011. A scathing new audit this week by the inspector genera ...

From Matt Stoller at Nekkied Capital: So that’s a total of 55 people, 10 of whom are FBI agents. Let’s do a few comparisons. During the Savings and Loan crisis, Bill Black reminds us that there were about a thousand FBI agents working on the various cases. That’s one hundred times the number ...

I know, I know I know…you thought Obama was going to come in and usher in some new regime of fairness or something for Americans…right? Well, now we all know that this administration is every bit as corrupt and antagonistic to Americans as those before. In terms of the financial hav ...

So here’s the deal…let’s call it like one of the oldest principles of American law: YOU CANNOT SUE SOMEONE UNTIL YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE! WHOA! Stop the presses on that one! That’s the whole deal. That’s kind of a fundamental, but that’s a concept that&#821 ...

Socialists tax and tax, weakening production and profits, then borrow and borrow to try and cover the ensuing shortfalls. And companies must borrow as well to try and patch up their ruined finances. Economic destruction guaranteed!

Vaccine Awakening

by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...

Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...

Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...

Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it. But ...

The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment. Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

Chen reports: "In many industrialized countries around the world, taking time off from work to deal with a medical issue isn't just a benefit; it's considered an entitlement, as much as an eight-hour day. But in the world's richest nation, a worker who claims that right has had to appeal to the ...

Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...

Excerpt: "Senate Democrats have released a new plan that puts Michigan students ahead of wealthy corporations.... Michigan's high school graduates will be eligible for free tuition at one of Michigan's community colleges or universities. ... The program will be funded entirely by eliminating $3. ...

Excerpt: "Of particular concern is a group of pesticides, chemically similar to nicotine, called neonicotinoids (neonics for short), and one in particular called clothianidin. Instead of being sprayed, neonics are used to treat seeds, so that they're absorbed by the plant's vascular system, and ...

War Resisters League

[This piece by Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel was originally published here on January 15th, 2012.] US-made tear gas, manufactured by companies like Combined Systems Inc. (CSI), Defense Technology, and NonLethal Technologies, continues to be … Continue reading & ...

by Esther Wang [This piece first appeared on December 22nd as a note on Esther Wang's Facebook page.] In October, news broke that 19-year-old Danny Chen – a US Army private who was born and raised in Chinatown – had … Continue reading →

As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →

[The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...

by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →

According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...

I have long felt that Håkan Juholt was inappropriate as the leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. But what was most disturbing - in this time of transparency - was the opaque manner of his being "appointed and anointed" as leader of the party.

Consumerist

With about a half-decade of a blah economy and weak employment, Americans are growing more amenable to taking temporary employment, changing their viewpoint from the glass-half-empty opinion of "it's a job without permanence" to "it's a job that may lead to something permanent one day." This i ...

Travelers at Los Angeles International Airport this morning were held back from boarding this morning after the brain trust at the TSA security checkpoint not only managed to mistake a passenger's insulin pump for a gun, but also waited until after she'd passed through the checkpoint to think i ...

What's a retailer to do when they're not getting enough online love? Just offer customers a kickback in the form of a refund for a positive review. Some businesses have been pumping themselves up in this dastardly way, which could mean all those glowing reviews of the latest blanket-and-sweatsu ...

A Wyoming college student probably never thought he'd be making headlines around the country when he got caught eating a donut he hadn't paid for. According to reports, the 19-year-old was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting after employees at a store say they spotted him leaving the premise ...

It was Wayne's fault for accidentally sending Netflix his WWE'12 instead of returning The Magnificent Seven, that much he knows. But he had some hope things would be resolved pleasantly when he called the same day he sent it out, and was assured they'd return it to him. Wayne says he's stuck ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

Tour Stop Featuring Prominent Whistleblowers Set for Monday The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is excited to announce the continuation of its successful program, the American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability, with the first 2012 stop set for Auburn Universit ...

Florida Ag-Gag Bill Dies in Both Houses Summary: Proposed legislation in both houses of the Florida legislature – which would have criminalized whistleblowers who film undercover videos at food production facilities like farms – was killed on Wednesday. GAP's Food Integrity Campaign applauds t ...

The New York Times: Assange to Host Conversations on TV Show Photo Courtesy of flickr user Espen Moe WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange is slated to host a talk show beginning in March on the RT Network. The program, set for 10 episodes that run 30 minutes apiece, will focus on conversations with ...

Times-Picayune (LA): Fired BP Worker Files Whistleblower Suit Summary: A former BP employee has filed a whistleblower suit against the major oil company, claiming that he was fired after reporting to federal overseers that his superiors were falsifying data to make Mississippi beaches appear c ...

According to the reports in today's Washington Post, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pushed out career analyst Heather Kiriakou, wife to John Kiriakou, the former CIA employee who has the dubious distinction of being the sixth person in history charged under the Espionage Ac ...

UK Progressive

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Friday, 28 January 2011 Tweet of the Day: (from Ben Wedeman, CNN senior internati ...

On 27 January 2012, we published our regular column from The Reverend Irene Monroe on the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Florida A&M’s drum major Robert Champion, Jr. In that article Florida Solicitor Chuck Hobbs was referenced prompting a reply that was posted as a long ...

Republicans are worried sick about Newt Gingrich’s ascendance, while Democrats are tickled pink. Yet no responsible Democrat should be pleased at the prospect that Gingrich could get the GOP nomination. The future of America is too important to accept even a small risk of a Gingrich presidency. ...

For each day during this nearly three week long anniversary, an excerpt of the Book “Egypt Unshackled” will provide you with the historical and social media highlights from each day of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.Thursday, 27 January 2011 Tweet of the Day: @Sarahcarr Happy birthday Khaled Said, ...

While President Obama lifts his presidency to champion the cause of jobs that are made in the USA, his Republican opponents stake their plans for power, to a degree that no great party in the history of the republic has ever attempted, on the prospect of the American economy failing. What is not ...

JoNova

David Archibald, polymath, makes a bold prediction that temperatures are about to dive sharply (in the decadal sense). He took the forgotten correlation that as solar cycles lengthen and weaken, the world gets cooler. He refined it into a predictive tool, tested it and published in 2007. His pa ...

New Element Discovered The CSIRO announced the discovery of a perverse, perplexing atom The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together b ...

A new brief summary of the reasoning and evidence behind the skeptics case. –Jo ——————————————— The Skeptic’s Case Who Are You Going To Believe – The Government Climate Scientists Or The Data? Guest P ...

Despite all the headlines we see, 2011 in Australia was remarkable for its extraordinary averageness. It is a rare year that is more average than 2011 was. (This email was spotted on it’s way to various government officials. No, Steve, isn’t expecting them to reply. – Jo) &#821 ...

ReNew America

(Jeff Lukens) - Barack Obama has gone from the "one we've been waiting for" to the one we can't wait to kick out. No one ever thought one man could bring the nation to its knees, but here he is living in the White House. And on our knees we have been praying for the day that he leaves...

(Home School Legal Defense Association) - In the State of the Union address President Obama called on all states to raise their school compulsory attendance age to 18, unnecessarily adding to bureaucratic requirements for homeschoolers. Homeschool advocates at the Home School Legal Defense Assoc ...

(Chuck Williams) - Everyone in the Republican Party understands that America is in a deep financial crisis. That's obvious. But there is a deeper problem, one that is inseparable from most of the challenges we face in the 21st century. And that is our national moral decay. We as a people have fo ...

(Right Scoop) - This debate was largely a colossal waste of time, but this exchange was absolutely my favorite. Santorum went after Romney on the debate, forcing him to even defend the individual mandate, and basically beat him down with ObamaCare. This is the full exchange that runs seven minut ...

(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - What we witnessed Tuesday night on Capitol Hill was the oratorical version of a typical White House late Friday afternoon document dump that one would expect on a Friday afternoon (i.e., when forced to reveal bad news, the Obama White House releases a blizzard of paper ...

In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...

Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

There are several doom’n'gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world. SpaceWeather.com has informed us: Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, ...X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worr ...

Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard ...Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Come ...

The leader of the free world has enough power to cause TEOTWAWKI via bad policy or religious motivation. And Obama might be out-voted just before the Mayan calendar ends in December. Even for those who ...The Final Four Republican Candidates is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Ron Pau ...

Ever wondered why we are hairless compared to other apes? Or why our tears are salty? Or even why we have breasts? Elaine Morgan has devoted decades to the topic of Aquatic Apes, and I’ve been ...Elaine Morgan on Aquatic Apes is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Rapid Darwinian ...

After all the poorly written 2012 news items of recent weeks, Wired has come out with an excellent article on the scientific possibilities of doomsday. I’ve summarized their list and added my comments: SuperVolcano Wired: Yellowstone’s giant volcanic crater ...Wired & The Sc ...

MILAN (AP) -- The Italian government has approved hotly contested emergency measures to open competition in a wide-range of sectors aimed at boosting growth and making room for young people in the workforce....

Oriental Review

The news of a plea deal for US Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich charged in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 neither caused a sensation nor even grabbed the headlines for a considerable period of time in the US media and the Internet. Initially, Wuterich faced three m ...

The mission of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), investigated alleged widespread international law violations since mid-February 2011. Its mandate included investigating those committed ...

What is the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher? A good teacher is at least the one who is able to solve the task he gives to his students. That is why I have always been puzzled by the fact that while “introducing democracy” all over the world Americans are evading this [...]

The current situation in Syria remains one of the most important components of the Middle Eastern and international policies. Using Syria’s domestic crisis and pursuing their own goals NATO, Israel, Turkey and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf are trying to undermine the Syrian regime. Since th ...

Despite the areas of difference and the rivalries between Moscow and Tehran, Russian and Iranian ties are increasing. Both Russia and Iran share many commonalities. They are both major energy exporters, have deeply seated interests in the South Caucasus, oppose NATO’s missile shield, and want to ...

BlogHer

"Look at me when I'm talking to you!"It annoyed me when my mom said it, usually because my nose was buried in a book instead of looking at her. In today's world tweens are usually texting, watching videos, playing games, talking on the phone, or all of these things at once. But, a new study find ...

[Editor's Note: I requested Caroline Preston's The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt from the library when it first came out but it came to me during one of those busy times where I didn't have time to truly appreciate it. I'm adding it to my request list again and this time I'm sitting down and givin ...

[Editor's Note: These scones would be lovely for a weekend breakfast. Though there are few areas that have fresh strawberries from local farmers right nowthey're still in my farmers market, for examplethese would work with frozen strawberries, too, for a burst of summer flavor even i ...

Being the movie geek that I am, the day that the Oscar nominations come out is always a fun day for me. I love to obsess over the commentaries and argue on behalf of my favorites, and I compulsively add any nominees I haven't seen yet into my queue.And Oscar Night! Glamorous, elegant, ...

Health Freedom Alliance

Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states as the Government claims ownership over our water sources. Yes even rain water. ~ Health Freedoms Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly ...

A total of 37 communities vote to end artificial water fluoridation in 2011. Is your community on that list? With all the toxins in today’s drinking water it should be. ~ Health Freedoms The year 2011 ...

Why has the FDA ignored the fact that mercury, an element that is highly toxic in all forms, was found in a large number of brand-name processed foods? Specifically, the mercury content was found to ...

Live News Wire

Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...

The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...

At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...

The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

In a Monday Jan. 23, 2012 photo, Sheila Combs, president of the Upper Big Branch Mining Memorial Group, looks over a sign showing what the Upper Big Branch Miners Memorial will look like in Whitesville, W. Va. Media outlets report that work began Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 on a memorial for 29 min ...

The Associated Press is reporting on this, having picked up the story from the Morgantown Dominion Post: An ex-mine foreman who admitted faking safety inspection reports is suing Patriot Coal Corp. and the Federal No. 2 mine bosses who he claims pressured him to falsify data. John Renner is awai ...

Here in West Virginia, most political leaders can’t say enough nice things about CONSOL Inc.’s plan for the Buffalo Mountain Surface Mine, a project associated with construction of the much-touted King Coal Highway from Bluefield to Williamson. But officials from the U.S. Environment ...

Following up on a tip from a Coal Tattoo reader, I passed a question on to state officials about the W.Va. Department of Environmental Protection’s study of the water in the Prenter area of Boone County … here’s a press release that resulted from that reader’s careful eye ...

Daniel Miessler

As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brai ...

I think a lot about customer service. Or, what I really mean is that I get angry a lot about customer service. I’m not speaking of the declining competence of tech support for a phone or Internet service, but more about things like restaurants or coffee shops, i.e. places that are supposed ...

A while back I posted about having experiences through books. I was thinking again about this today and was imagining a rock-climbing experience. I myself have never been rock climbing, but I have a feeling of it from a few things. I do, however, remember reading The Eiger Sanction in my teens, ...

By extending the Burp Suite and integrating it with a CAPTCHA solving farm you can enable the automated bypassing of CAPTCHA within all burp tools; seamlessly replacing all CAPTCHA with their correct solutions. via idontplaydarts.com One of the coolest Burp extensions I’ve ever seen. Poste ...

Fitwatch

London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, FITwatch have learned today. Bloomsbury Social Centre - which aimed to be a "hub of organising for students, workers and residents ...

Fitwatch regularly get asked what happened to the cops who assaulted members of the group during Kingsnorth climate camp. The case received a large amount of publicity when it was front page of the Guardian in June 2009, and many thousands of people viewed the footage of officers using excessive ...

More plainclothes cops were spotted during the public sector protests on November 30th. The ones pictured here were all identified during the kettle in Panton Street, and all admitted to being cops when challenged. Plainclothes cops outed on 30th November were surrounded by protesters, derided a ...

FITwatch have been inspired by the amount of people taking an interest in the policing operations on November 9th. FITwatch recognise critical enagagement with policing strategy as being crucial to our success as a protest movement. However, FITwatch wanted to flag one particular area of concern ...

Worldwide Hippies

One of my favorite political put-downs ever was administered in the early part of the 19th Century by arguably the most intelligent man of the age, and one ot the top three or four conrtenders for the honor off the smartest feller EVER–John Stuart Mill (Spoke English, French, German, Latin ...

By Jessica Pauline Ogilvie,thegloss.com- I do a lot of facial masks and scrubs in the name of experimentation, and so today I decided to give my punim a little break and focus on my weary feet. How weary? So fucking weary. Anyway, what I want to do this week is a scrub for my feet. [...]

by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY,.counterpunch.org – Drug addicts are pathetic but sometimes happy people. They are pitiable in their hopeless enslavement to something that dominates and will probably kill them, but seem content in a warped sort of way because they can be taken out of their bleak and di ...

By Jennifer Toth, WorldWideHippies- Couponing and being frugal may seem like a silly part of someone “else’s” life – but it is a HUGE part of the lives of those who practice it. We save $1000’s and $1000’s. It only takes a few minutes each day or maybe an hour on a Sunday afternoon to prepare [...]

by John Kozy,globalresearch.ca - A society in which people exist for the sake of companies is a society enslaved Man is a pathetic creature; a brute trying to be god but traveling in the wrong direction. Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which ...

reference frame

The Guardian, a top British left-wing daily, became an unlikely place that launched a war against materialism in science. In his article It's time for science to move on from materialism,Mark Vernon promotes a new book by Rupert Sheldrake, The Science Delusion. In synergy with some quotes f ...

Everyone is talking about this article in the Wall Street Journal: No Need to Panic About Global Warming The subtitle says that there's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy. Sixteen prominent authors who are close to the climate science ...

After the successful 24 hours of virtual reality – Al Gore's online project in Fall 2011 that was watched by dozens of people in the whole world, mostly by the readers of WUWT, the world's most followed climate website – Al Gore has prepared another fascinating event that deserves to be promo ...

But it gets repeated every 394.3 years Czechia may be the most atheist nation in the world but be sure that it doesn't prevent the Czechs from believing any kind as well as all kinds of superstitious crap you may think of. In fact, it's plausible that the almost complete absence of Chris ...

Tatumba 2.0

The Making of a Viral Video This will be a long an detailed blog entry, so grab a banana, sit back, and learn about a potential scam running on YouTube right now. This scam is so simple that it is scary, and YouTube does not seem to give a shit. Back in March 2011 I [...] Related posts: PayPal ...

I went and dun done it. I created a facebook fan page. facebook may be evil incarnate but I am now on there. A few years ago I joined as a member and quickly obtained thousands of friends. Then one day I woke up and found out that my account was suspended because I did [...] Related posts: How ...

This is a leaked video straight from an insider who may or may not already have been assassinated for releasing this. I am risking my life by posting this but for the greater good it must be done. This video reveals the Illuminati operating plan to lead to complete world domination. Creeps you o ...

Yeah my cuz put out a new video today. It is a remake of the Bruno Mars’ The Lazy Song. I am sure that you will agree with me that my cousins version is superior to the original: Ultimate Party Animal Costume Adult Standard Ape mask Beverage belt Ultimate Party Animal shirt Bermud ...

Yeah I have an retirement plan that is sure to make me live in comfort for the rest of my days… Follow my checklist and you can do it to: Register as an Amazon Affiliate: Check Find a product niche that fits your blogging niche: Check Make sure that it is expensive so you can [...] Relate ...

By Alex Rindler, Policy Associate According to a Huffington Post article published today, U.S. Marine Corps officials have urged federal health experts not to release complete information about an ongoing federal water assessment at Marine Corps Base... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Guest Post by Robyn O'Brien and Angie Nordstrum We've all seen (or at least heard of) the movie "Erin Brockovich" in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

By Alex Formuzixs, EWG Communications Director In 2010, EWG identified chromium-VI contamination in the drinking water of 31 of the 35 cities we tested. One Kentucky city has stepped up to solve that problem. A change in how drinking water... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...

By Nils Bruzelius, EWG Executive Editor People are messy. So is nature. And what people do when nature unleashes its fury often makes things worse. The staff at Environmental Working Group took a look at the major environmental news stories... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my web ...

Quick Hits

The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...

MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...

Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...

Views & News from Norway

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg issued a formal apology on behalf of the Norwegian government on Friday for what he called the "brutal" and shameful deportation of Norway's Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II. The apology came on Holocaust Day, and ahead of what will be the 70th anniver ...

A British couple's dream of buying a farm in the Norwegian mountains turned into a nightmare, and now they're blasting Norway's strict agricultural real estate regulations and comparing them to those in Zimbabwe. Paul and Andrea Hodgkinson have launched a media campaign back home in England an ...

The proprietor of a gasoline station in the small Norwegian town of Skotselv, Buskerud County, received an unusual letter containing NOK 500 (nearly USD 100) this week. The sender claimed he had occasionally stolen candy from the gas station's convenience store as a child, and wanted to repent. ...

Norwegian and British police have uncovered what they believe is an organized human smuggling route between Brevik on Norway's southern coast and Immingham in England. The smugglers allegedly hide their human cargo in containers shipped on board ferries that run in scheduled service between the ...

Norway's Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday morning that a Norwegian man who's been working for the United Nations in Yemen has been set free by a band of local kidnappers. The 34-year-old Norwegian had been held captive for nearly two weeks. Gert Danielsen, who worked for the United Nations Dev ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

by Theron Beaudreau In a rural village at the Southwest corner of the Isaan Plateau, just over an hour drive south of Thailand’s second largest city, Korat, a band of tenacious permaculturalists have just arrived at the site of their new home. Over the course of the next year, infrastru ...

What better way to become more of a danger to the modern realm of earth destruction and technological torment than to team up Permaculture knowledge with Holistic Management training. Teaming HM with Permaculture has an exceptionally powerful effect on building soils, repairing large lands ...

The Permaculture Research Institute Turkey is planning to host three prominent events in summer 2012. First a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course will be organized in Istanbul on 30 June — 12 July, 2012; held by two legendary trainers, Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. Following th ...

by Mike Ludwig, Truthout For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops. Now, their worst fears could be coming true: under a new two-year pilot program at the USDA, regulators a ...

It’s not as good as seeing all of Monsanto’s plants and chemicals getting taken ‘offline’, but at least I can get a little mischevious pleasure from learning that Monsanto has been on the hit-list of the Anonymous team. The following video apparently shows how Monsanto w ...

Pointman's

Can you imagine if a group set up a website to name people, with their place of work, who did not believe Allah is the one true god? Not only that, the site actively encourages its visitors to supply it with more names of other people who don’t believe in Allah either. Would such a … ...

I’ve been following the various investigations into the hacking of voice mail and other criminal activities by elements of the mainstream media (MSM) in the UK. They longer they go on, the more varied and widespread the abuses are being found to be; email break ins, computer break ins and ...

If you live in Western Europe, then politically there are only two countries you have to keep an eye on; England and Germany. The reality is the rest just make noises while the former two make prosperity or give you fair warning of how many notches you should be tightening your belt. Angela Merk ...

I am not a religious man. For a number of reasons, some intellectual but mostly personal, I don’t even believe in a God but I acknowledge the overall good religion has done in the world, as well as the bad. A religion is after all a man-made thing directed by human beings and will therefore&#160 ...

We’re nearly at year’s end and in the fight against climate alarmism, it can only be called a vintage year. This was supposed to be the year when they thought they would regain the initiative but it’s only served to confirm how jaded people are with it all. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Event was in ...

Journalists' Toolkit

How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...

I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we ca ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

From the Bridge the Gulf blog: In a letter to the editors of the Times-Picayune this month, New Orleans resident Mona Castillo wrote that the key to decreasing crime is to make prison "less comfortable." She wrote, "At the present time, jails are more like hotels. Many prisoners live better ...

Family member had been founder of Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice The following article was originally published by journalist Pete Tucker at TheFightBack.org: Growing up in a civil rights family in Bogalusa, Louisiana, Chuck Hicks remembers the constant threats. “We ...

A new film by a collective of filmmakers based in New Orleans has emerged as one of the major success stories at this year's Sundance Film Festival with their new film that shines a light on the issues faced on Louisiana's Gulf Coast. Variety, the insider journal of the film industry, has named ...

“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 One. Human rights must be taken absolutely seriously. Every single person is entitled to dignity and human rig ...

Journalist Pete Tucker, blogging at TheFightBack, reports that Gulf Coast residents have a new ally in the struggle for justice after the BP Drilling Disaster: Legendary comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The original report is posted below. Comedian and activist Dick Gregory wasn’t thrown beh ...

Yep. At the end of the day all I can say is Iran is correct... It was a Jew Conspiracy against Nixon... to ensure he didn't stop the financial and political Jewish Scams. By the way, I almost forgot to add the closing of the "Gold window " on the dollar as a related J-Scam that free ...

The G-D Jews in Russia stole these eggs from the Imperial family...and slimy Jews like Arm-and-Hammer resold them to Jew Dealers in the UK and even the Rothschilds... incredibly disgusting! It's like 1991-2001 revisited during second Jew Rape of Russia's treasures... --CSR ------- Fabergé eggs ...

The most credible source below cites Canadian MP Barry: http://www.upf.org/programs/bering-stra ... and-canada M.P. Barry: Advancing the Bering Strait Tunnel Project in the United States and Canada By Mark P. Barry, Senior Fellow for Public Policy, Summit Council for World Peace, Washington, ...

environment 360

A litany of environmental threats, from forest fragmentation and logging to climate change and disease, are wiping out the world’s biggest trees, according to a published report. In forest ecosystems worldwide, research shows that giant trees have become particularly vulnerable to a changing env ...

California regulators are expected to pass new rules today requiring that 15 percent of all new cars sold by 2025 be powered by electricity, hydrogen, or other reduced-emission sources. The new rules proposed by the California Air Resources Board would also require a 75-percent reduction in smog ...

A U.S. scientific panel is calling for a systematic study of the growing use of nanomaterials in industry, saying little is known about the risk of the microscopic particles increasingly being used in everything from cosmetics to clothing and paint. The National Research Council (NRC), part of t ...

The big electric car launches of 2011 failed to generate the consumer excitement that some had predicted. But as new battery technologies emerge and tougher mileage standards kick in, automakers and analysts still believe that electric vehicles have a bright future. BY JIM MOTAVALLI

Wildlife experts say an unprecedented number of snowy owls have ventured south into the northern U.S. this winter, a spike that may be driven by a dearth of Wikimedia Commons A snowy owl food in the Arctic. From Seattle to Boston, bird-watchers have spotted the owls — marked by bright whi ...

backofthebook

by Eric Pettifor First of all, I’m not going to predict the end of the world. I know, 2012 is the year that the Mayan long count calendar ends, on December 21st, to be exact, but somehow I doubt it will be terminal. Really, our best shot at near term extinction comes from science. But [...]

A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy ...

By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless ...

By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public — that would be you — can be. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. Conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article. But conventional wi ...

By Montreal Simon I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime. Or I could run this picture of him ret ...

Daily Beast

Newt Gingrich's SuperPac has posted a harsh new ad, accusing Mitt Romney of benefiting from Medicare fraud at a company called Damon back in the 1990s. Bain owned 8% of Damon. Damon's bad practices began before Bain's investment in the firm. In fact, according to Romney's bio ...

Japan Times

An 11th-place finish last season suggests Kawasaki Frontale's days as a J. League championship contender are over, but playmaker Kengo Nakamura is refusing to go quietly as the club prepares for another tilt at a first-ever title. Frontale went into last year's campaign having finished each of ...

Amere 10-minute walk across busy Route 58 from the polyglot sidewalks, hotels and souvenir shops of Kokusai-dori, the faintly grubby, undulating Chinese boundary walls of a green enclosure announce the presence of a garden known as Fukushu-en. Somehow it doesn't feel in the slightest bit incon ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has admitted it overcharged on defense- and space-projects ordered by the Defense Ministry, the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The ministry and the center said they will not in principle sign project contracts with th ...

A government survey released Saturday found that more than 80 percent of respondents were largely unaware of details about an envisioned system that would number citizens to centralize control of tax payments and other personal data. In total, 83.3 percent of those polled said they are mostly ...

A charity established by a talent agency to support reconstruction in the northeast expects to shoulder several billion yen of the cost of leasing giant pandas from China for a zoo in Sendai. Singer Masahiko Kondo, 47, who represents the Marching J charity set up by Johnny & Associates Inc ...

Newt Gingrich says the Government should allow terror attacks so people are reminded how much we need them. Newt also thinks it's ok to have no right to privacy or 4th amendment if you're not plotting with terrorist.

Making It Count - CCPA

The CCPA organized a very successful economist roundtable yesterday on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The event was titled “The Global Economic Crisis: Can Canada Escape a Lost Decade?”. MPs from all parties were invited as were members from a wide variety of civil society organization ...

Two obvious but generally unstated details about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline are climate change and that oil and gas companies stand to make mega-profits. An honest appraisal of the project would be something like, “yes, putting in the pipeline will facilitate even more greenhou ...

Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement (OAS/GIS) benefits is the worst possible way to deal with the retirement income security crisis facing Canadians. Experts such as former Assistant Chief Statistician Michael Wolfson project that one half of all midd ...

The CLC today celebrated Corporate Tax Freedom Day – defined as the day on which corporations have paid their share of all government taxes. It featured a race of mechanical pigs to a trough full of cash – with the pigs wearing the colours of leading Canadian corporations with large ...

Some major turn-rounds are radically changing the political situation in Québec. Even from within the province, things remain unclear and it all changes very quickly. Within the span of a few months, a party was born, the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), a major crisis has shaken the Parti québéco ...

ReDress

Stuart Littlewood highlights one of the most disgraceful and criminal aspects of the Israeli occupation, house demolitions, and stresses that "America and the rest of the West should understand clearly why Caterpillar has become the hated symbol of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and oppression, ...

Stuart Littlewood calls on British readers to demand that the UK government's proposed statutory register of lobbyists cover in-house lobbyists, such as the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel lobby groups which comprise Members of Parliament, and not just lobby firms.

Lawrence Davidson views the battle between truth-tellers and those who would suppress the truth, as reflected in the US-inspired prosecution of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon for allegedly "abusing judicial powers" - a charge apparently prompted by his call for Spain to bring charges against six ...

Alan Hart says that brainwashing by American Zionists, and the anti-Obama hate campaign conducted by Israel's stooges in the Republican Party, are creating an environment where the prospect of assassinating the US president to make way for a more pro-Israel president is no longer unthinkable.

Uri Avnery considers the relationship between Israel's demographic-cultural blocs and its domestic politics, especially attitudes towards peace and the Arabs. He argues that before peace can establish roots, the barriers between the blocs, especially the deeply ingrained racism of the Oriental a ...

Physics Today

Florida Today: NASA isn't adequately prepared to evacuate the International Space Station (ISS) in an emergency, says a new report from the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP). The report recommends that the agency improve its emergency drills and consider alternative "lifeboat" options for I ...

Science: Nanotechnology research requires more oversight regarding human and environmental safety, says a new report from the US National Research Council (NRC). Although the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) studies the safety of nanomaterials, the NRC has found gaps in its guidelines. F ...

Macworld: A California company called Lytro has developed a revolutionary new camera that allows users to focus an image after it’s been shot. Lytro uses a microlens array to capture four-dimensional light-field information. With software and processing, that information can be used to imp ...

Science Daily: Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC accelerator laboratory used rapid-fire laser pulses to flash-heat a tiny piece of aluminum foil to about 2 million °C. The experiments used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, which is a billion times brighter than ...

Nature: According to a study released yesterday by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, severe flooding will be the most urgent problem the country could face as a result of climate change. The study examines 100 potential consequences of climate change for the UK in a nu ...

Revolutionary Politics

by mick123 (Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:23:34 GMT) Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that is superior ...

by albertodegama (Posted Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:08 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...

Peakwater

“International aid organizations have been reporting an increase in violent incidents concerning water supply. This is happening against a worrying backdrop of mounting sectarian violence between Iraq’s majority Shiites, who dominate the government and the security forces, and the mi ...

“The monitoring would help in understanding the groundwater level in those areas where rainwater is not being harnessed properly. For this purpose, the water agency is in the process of identifying observational wells. Creating public awareness of the benefits of rainwater harvesting coupl ...

“Water scarcity and flooding is likely to become the main problem for the UK in the future, which will need to adapt to increase its reliance, was the stark warning from the first comprehensive climate change risk study. “As part of the assessment, 700 potential climate change impact ...

“When the environmental license for the Santo Antônio Dam was approved against the findings of fish experts, Lula controversially claimed that the dams would not be stopped because of “some catfish.” Now, the catfish are disappearing. The news is especially troubling only a few ...

“We’re faced with a lack of water,” he said. “The problem is that the canal department is asking for both water and electricity at the same time – and we can’t satisfy both demands simultaneously.” “The United States Agency for International Develo ...

Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for the immediate enactment of policies to reverse a disturbing rise of poverty rates in Cuyahoga County. “‘America is back,’ said President Obama at the State of the Union address. We are seeing good signs, ...

Cleveland, Ohio (January 26, 2012) – Researchers at the Cornell University Global Labor Institute recently published a report that confirms Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) analysis of the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on Ohio. According to the report (PDF), the Keystone XL pipeline wou ...

Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) released this statement following news reports that the MetroHealth System posted a $2.7 million loss for 2011: “Today’s news should be a sticker shock for the people of Cuyahoga County. MetroHealth continues to see increases in ‘uncompensated care’ which a ...

Washington D.C. (January 25, 2012) – At last night’s State of the Union Address, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was able to speak with President Obama about Cleveland’s need to replace the I-90 Innerbelt Bridge. Kucinich spoke to the President as the President left the House floor. The Pre ...

… I wonder is the POPE required to register as a sex offender in the USA or his priests … ? 1 out of every 318 adults in USA is a registered sex offender The organization’s most recent survey of states found there are 747,408 registered ...

… If the 1% really want to “piss-off” the American public … this is a great first start … Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminat ...

…Why is it “we” are not able to obtain full disclosure and transparency about these issues from … FDA … USDA … CDC … “big pharma” … makes one conclude it really is all about the $$$.. Join in the massive online petition to label those GMOs and watch thi ...

… If this is true and America is rebirthing fact-based journalism then 2012 will indeed prove to be a pivotal year … The End of The Mainstream Media And The Rebirth of Fact-Based Journalism 01-24-2012 • www.prisonplanet.com …Saman Mohammadi “The West is headed to di ...

Popular Technology

As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...

SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...

There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...

WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest tropical forest-related news stories for 2011. We at mo ...

My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I managed to take photos on many of the trips. Overall I added more than 10,000 new photos to the travel section of the site. Below are some of my favorite pictures from 2011. Thank you for reading mongabay.com in 2011 and I wi ...

Brazil, which last week moved to reform its Forest Code, may find lessons in Russia's revision of its forest law in 2007, say a pair of Russian scientists. The Brazilian Senate last week passed a bill that would relax some of forest provisions imposed on landowners. Environmentalists blasted th ...

Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...

Following in his family's footsteps, Dr. Richard Leakey, is considered the heir to the scientific legacy of his parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, icons in the field of paleoanthropology. Dr Richard Leakey has been credited with some of the field's most successful paleoanthropologic finds, includi ...

Science - NZ Herald

Because Cyrano weighs more than 20 pounds, amputating his cancer-weakened leg was out of the question. So the tubby tabby's owners turned to doctors and engineers at North Carolina State University to get him back into mice-catching...

A patient in Palmerston North is the latest in New Zealand to be treated for a rare and potentially lethal "flesh-eating" bug.MidCentral District Health Board this morning confirmed a patient had been admitted to Palmerston North...

A study is underway to try and find out why the West Coast fur seal population is declining.Massey University researcher Laureline Meynier spent the first week of this year armed with giant butterfly nets and shields, gluing six...

Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 91 million litres of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this year to demonstrate new technology they hope will boost a green energy sector yet to live up to its promise.They...

Sleep experts in quake-shaken Canterbury have backed the findings of a US study that has found sleeping after a traumatic event like an earthquake cements - and could even amplify - negative emotional memories.In experiments by...

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Hit & Run | Reason

Tallahassee, Fla - Gun issues have not played a major role in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. They are barely on the radar this go around. At the Tallahassee Gun Show, attendees ranked Second Amendment cbelow issues like the economy and "the Constitution." Only tw ...

ORLANDO — After keeping evangelical Puerto Ricans and bored Tea Partiers waiting in a half-empty church sanctuary for nearly an hour on Saturday, Newt Gingrich arrived at the Centro de La Familia in Orlando and promised to support Puerto Rico's bid for statehood; agitate for a Cuban ...

How many public transit expert/advocates actually ride on public transportation? I have met more than three folks, in and out of the establishment media, who speak with authority about mass transportation yet somehow can never get around to using it in the heat of their daily strug ...

Jacksonville, Fla.—A five hour drive on the back roads of the Sunshine State will tell you that this is a very different primary contest than either New Hampshire or Iowa. In a state renowned for its tackiness, there are surprisingly few yard signs planted next to pink flamingos. Majo ...

Mercury Rising

Lisa O’Carroll and Josh Halliday, The Guardian: Four current and former senior Sun journalists and one serving police officer have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s investigation into police corruption. … The four Sun employees arrested are understood to be Mike Sullivan ...

Nice to see the President landing a few hard blows on right-wingers for a change: Republicans said it was unconstitutional. An overreach of executive power. A blatant slap at the Senate. But when it comes to waging war over a handful of obscure recess appointments, the Senate GOP is struggling w ...

“A bravado performance.” –Eliot Spitzer talking about the State of the Union, accidentally speaking truth on Countdown Robert Fisk, London Independent: In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan ...

Former Minnesota State Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, who resigned that post after admitting to an “inappropriate relationship” with a male Senate staffer widely suspected to be Michael Brodkorb, dropped a small hint earlier this week as to her Dimmesdale’s identity: She [Amy ...

Reality Sandwich

OWS Sustainability hosts the first Eco Summit on Saturday, January 28th in which the environmental groups operating within the movement are gathering to exchange ideas and present all current projects. Some interesting collaborations are sure to come out of this meeting. If you want to plug in ...

Join me and 8 other contributing authors of "The Sync Book" to discuss (and experience) synchronicity during an interactive multimedia event, opening with the NYC premiere of Radio8Ball, a musical divination format where questions are answered by picking songs at random and interpretin ...

Researchers at the University of Sidney in Australia have concluded that rising global temperatures have increased the brain functions of lizards. Quicker response times in simple learning tests have been recorded when these tiny lizards are exposed to higher temperatures. This has lead to some ...

“What is the internet?,” asks one of the now-hilarious VHS-era videos sampled in the opening sequence of the recent collage-umentary INTERNET RISING For the next hour, the filmmakers take us on a far-ranging journey through innumerable perspectives on that basic question, from technogurus (Kevin ...

Desertification

The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government.

Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking water.

Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution.

On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.

On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.

Automatic Earth

Jack Delano Hot Sugar January 1942Guanica, Puerto Rico. "Burning a sugar cane field. This process destroys the leaves and makes the cane easier to harvest" Ilargi: No, I’m not talking about the fact that Germany and Holland want to take over as the de facto government in Greece, as Noah Barkin ...

Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums Just watch me June 9 1902Fron album of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court in England between 1902 and 1916. Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me Th ...

Howard Hollem George Lane April 1942"George Lane, served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Seven of his nephews are ...

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

In the past two decades, Medicare’s administrators have conducted demonstrations to test two broad approaches to enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in Medicare’s fee-for-service program. Disease management and care coordination d ...

Raising the ages at which people can begin to collect Medicare and Social Security benefits would be one way to lower federal outlays, raise revenues, and reduce long-term fiscal imbalances. A CBO issue brief released today reviews how ages of eligibility affect beneficiaries under current law a ...

Currently, the federal government and state and local governments face calls for more and better highways but confront budgetary constraints in providing them. Some analysts have suggested that public-private partnerships might supply at least a portion of that capacity by providing additional f ...

The federal budget deficit was $320 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $49 billion less than the deficit recorded in the same period in fiscal year 2011. But $26 billion of that difference resulted from shifts in the timing of ce ...

Writing in this week's Science, University of Witwatersrand palaeontologist Professor Lyn Wadley and her colleagues describe an excavation they have carried out in a cave site called Sibudu in South A...

Cancer is a growing problem - and because we're all living longer, we're more likely to develop the disease at some point in our lifetime. Although we've got a lot better at treating the disease in re...

Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...

joshsternberg: According to this Wall Street Journal article, the Taliban, while not exactly doing a PR blitz, are taking steps to try to ‘soften’ their image. The proof point, from the article, is the Taliban’s reassessment of education for women. When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 19 ...

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